Nobody Died at Sandy Hook. It was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control 978-1518650840

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Nobody Died at Sandy Hook It was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control

Also by Mike Palecek Fiction: SWEAT: Global Warming in a small town, and other tales from the great American Westerly Midwest Joe Coffee’s Revolution The Truth The American Dream Johnny Moon KGB Terror Nation Speak English! The Last Liberal Outlaw The Progressive Avenger Camp America Twins Iowa Terror Guests of the Nation Looking For Bigfoot A Perfect Duluth Day American History 101: Conspiracy Nation Revolution One Day In The Life of Herbert Wisniewski Operation Northwoods: . . . the patsy Red White & Blue Non-Fiction: Cost of Freedom (with Whitney Trettien and Michael Annis) Prophets Without Honor (with William Strabala) The Dynamic Duo: White Rose Blooms in Wisconsin, Kevin Barrett, Jim Fetzer & the American Resistance And I Suppose We Didn’t Go To The Moon, Either? (with Jim Fetzer) Nobody Died At Sandy Hook (with Jim Fetzer)

Nobody Died at Sandy Hook It was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control

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Save the World/Resist the Empire Series Mike Palecek, Chuck Gregory, Jim Fetzer Series Editors The Dynamic Duo: White Rose Blooms in Wisconsin And I suppose we didn’t go to the Moon, either? Nobody Died at Sandy Hook

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CONTENTS Preface Mike Palecek / Some Conspiracy Theories are True Contributors

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Prologue Jim Fetzer / Thinking about Sandy Hook: Reality or Illusion?

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Part I: Early indications something was wrong 1. James F. Tracy / Medical Examiner: More questions than answers

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2. Dr. Eowyn / Six Signs Sandy Hook Elementary School was Closed

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3. Jim Fetzer / Wolfgang Halbig Goes for the Jugular in his FOIA Hearing 39 4. Jim Fetzer & Dennis Cimino / Shannon Hicks denies staging her “iconic” photograph 47 Part II: How we know Sandy Hook was an illusion 5. Vivian Lee / Top Ten Reasons: Sandy Hook was an Elaborate Hoax 6. Jim Fetzer / Even Obama officials confirmed that it was a drill

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7. Allan William Powell (with Kelley Watt) / Fixing a Prop: Furnishing the Lanza Home 117 8. Allan William Powell / Setting the Stage: Refurbishing the School

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Part III: Further Proof Nobody died at Sandy Hook 9. Dr. Eowyn / No one died at Sandy Hook: The Social Security Death Index 161 10. Dr. Eowyn & Jim Fetzer / Sandy Hook: CT crime data confirms FBI Report 169 11. Jim Fetzer & Kelley Watt / Are Sandy Hook skeptics delusional with “twisted minds”? 177 12. Sterling Harwood / Every Grain of Sandy Hook: Snopes.com & plausible deniability 187

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CONTENTS (continued) Epilogue Dennis Cimino / The Nexus of Tyranny: Tucson, Aurora and Sandy Hook 195 Afterword Nick Kollerstrom / Sandy Hook: Analogies with the 7/7 London Bombings 209 Appendices Appendix A: The FEMA Manual for the Sandy Hook Drill

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Appendix B: Nick Kollerstrom / The 20 Children and their Homes

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Appendix C: James F. Tracy / Sandy Hook School Massacre Timeline

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Appendix D: Crime Prevention Research Center: Comparing Murder and Homicide Rates before and after Gun Bans. 355 Index

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Some Conspiracy theories Are True by Mike Palecek

“What can government do about conspiracy theories? Among the things it can do, what should it do? We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories. (3) Government might itself engage in counter-speech, marshaling arguments to discredit conspiracy theories. (4) Government might formally hire credible private parties to engage in counter-speech. (5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential effects, or costs and benefits, and each will have a place under imaginable conditions. However, our main policy idea is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories, which involves a mix of (3), (4) and (5). “ … One line of thinking denies that conspiracy theories matter. There are several possible reasons to think so. First, conspiracy theories may be held by only a tiny fraction of the population. Perhaps only a handful of kooks believe that U.S. government officials had any kind of role in the events of 9/11. “ … Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.” — “Conspiracy Theories,” Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule, Jan. 15, 2008 ix

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“More than a year and a half after Adam Lanza brutally murdered 26 women and children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, parents and relatives of the victims still relive the terror of that fateful day along with the daily anguish and torment they suffer over the loss of their loved ones. Worse, they have to suffer the onslaught of delusional conspiracy theorists, commonly called hoaxers, who claim Sandy Hook was a “false flag” event concocted by the government as a pretext to gun confiscation.” — Lenny Pozner, Hartford Courant, July 25, 2014 Well, then, let us begin at the beginning. This is where it starts and ends. Right here. If Lenny Pozner is right then I am wrong. If his son Noah was murdered by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook School on Dec. 14, 2012, then this book is a bust, worse than that, much worse. But I do not think that is the case. We are saying that Sandy Hook did not happen as we have been told. We also think the Boston Marathon bombing did not happen as we have been told. We think these events are part of a pattern that stretches at least as far back as the murder of John F. Kennedy, likely farther. These “false flag” events are part of a conspiracy, a vast conspiracy. You have been taught to laugh now. But there is nothing funny here. Some of those who have spoken the truth are no longer here. Their chairs at the Thanksgiving adult big table are empty. Their relatives have sent them to Siberia with a roll of their eyes. So, let us begin. ... … Okay, here we go, scooch up to the samovar, maybe leave your hat and boots on, fill your peasant hands with a warm drink, and listen for the sound of hoofbeats on the ice. The New American Dream means never having to say some question or idea is not valid. We are allowed to ask any questions that we have, there are no wrong questions. There is no hidden black military budget, there are no UFO files Americans cannot see, no JFK documents that will not be opened during our lifetimes, no destroyed RFK murder photos by the L.A. police, no evidence from Ground Zero taken away before we can even look at it — we are not the U.S.S.R. of the 1960s — this is supposed to be America. That is our dream, to become America, The New America, the real hope of the world. x

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We have a dream, of bringing the United States politicians, journalists and generals who have brought about this long war and debacle to trial — and put on TV just like O.J. — every afternoon — so every American can watch, just like the McCarthy Hearings and the JFK funeral procession. What we need is a New American Dream. Not of new homes and toasters and microwaves, but of becoming the type of country we always thought we were. Right now we live on lies. We subsist on lies, but it’s not really living. 9/11 was an inside job. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. They all know that. What we need in America is a Truth Commission like they had in South Africa to heal their broken country. We need to put certain people on the stand and we need to be allowed to ask questions. Our country is surely broken as well. The troops are not protecting us. That is someone’s spin on the day’s news, somebody’s advertising slogan, someone else’s sermon. The troops serve the empire. They are not heroes. They kill and plunder for the empire. American bases overseas serve nobody but the empire. The heroes in our country are the protesters, the ones who go face to face with the empire, those in the Plowshares Movement, for one example. You have to know that Barack Obama knows the whole truth about the 9/11 attacks. He is complicit. He has lied. He has continued the wars everywhere based on a lie. And he knows he is lying. He lied right to our faces on national television when he said that Osama bin Laden had been killed, and buried at sea. Osama bin Laden was buried at sea, and Jessica Lynch was rescued heroically, the U.S.A. does not torture, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, George Bush won the 2000 election, see, there is a plane there in that hole in Shanksville, it went all the way into that hole and no, there is no blood and no bodies and no luggage scattered, or plane parts, and Osama bin Laden was buried at sea. Remember the anthrax letters, which said “Are You Afraid?” Those were not written with a rock and chisel like Fred Flintstone from the recesses of some cave in Afghanistan. Those letters came from persons within our own government. Like a horror movie and the killer is in the same house with us. These killers are right here, with us and “they” want us to be afraid. We cannot be afraid. And now for a word from National Public Radio, Good ol’ Reverend Bob, Miss Thompson, Your 5th Grade Teacher, The Police, The Tired Old Editor Strolling Down The Street After A Long Day At The Office, The Democratic xi

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Party, The American Legion, The Boy Scouts and Mom & Dad — all the people you trust to tell you the truth. No plane hit the Pentagon, nobody died at Sandy Hook. Nobody died at the Boston Bombing. The War on Terror is a fake. These phony-baloney weekly shootings are someone’s idea of public policy. If a plane would have hit the Pentagon, we would have seen that short film one thousand times by now on Chevrolet commercials and Miller Beer commercials and on commercials somehow juxtaposing the Pentagon, puppy pellets, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pope-Mobile. So. No plane hit the Pentagon. And because we know that from the lack of Pope-Mobile prevarications, we can be sure that Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, etc. all are liars and murderers. And we can include a bunch more folks in there as well. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton. The nice Obama family across the street. They all know the truth and refuse. Refuse. To tell us. And that’s the truth and I don’t care what happens to me, it’s just important that you know. This has been a word from National Public Radio, Good ol’ Reverend Bob, Miss Thompson Your 5th Grade Teacher, The Tired Old Editor Strolling Down The Street After A Long Day At The Office, The Police, The Democratic Party, The American Legion, The Boy Scouts and Mom & Dad — all the people you trust to tell you the truth. A TRUTH Series SAVE THE WORLD: Resist The American Empire You have trusted these people to tell you the truth, but all they have done is lie. This is the truth. This book. This series of books. Right at the end of your nose. You hold it in your hands. This book is the third in the truth series. The first, “The Dynamic Duo: White Rose Blooms in Wisconsin, Kevin Barrett, Jim Fetzer & The American Resistance,” was also published by Chuck Gregory’s CWG Press. The second, “And I Suppose We Didn’t Go To The Moon, Either?” dealt with the alleged moon landings, the alleged Holocaust, and the probability that Paul McCartney died long ago. The fourth will tell the truth about the alleged Boston Marathon bombing. xii

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There will be a fifth, with new information on the events of Sept. 11, 2001. C’mon … Teachers, priests, ministers, coaches, parents, please start telling the truth.

 We can handle the truth. In fact, without the truth, we cannot live. * We will die. * Slowly, and then all at once.
* We will collapse and that will be that. * It will be over.
* A dusty pile of rubble and Ho Ho’s and lies.
* In this book we seek to catalogue and examine just one of the many hoax events, terror events that have occurred in America since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. We seek to point a finger at these events, put a spotlight on them in the dark and ask, “What Is That?” We believe they are not occurring organically. We believe they are being seeded by elements within the United States government, and growing, spreading like pernicious weeds toward some end that for sure someone has envisioned, but that, at this point, we have not quite figured out. History is important. We really do need to know where we have been in order to see where we are going. The terms conspiracy theory, conspiracy theorist, tin-foil hat are all widespread in our society. They are derogatory terms, meant to ridicule, meant to throw up dust and smoke while the perpetrators make their getaway. The heroes of our country are not the soldiers and politicians and journalists you see paraded down main streets, in the newspapers, across television screens. The real heroes are the protesters, and, I believe, especially the citizen journalists who have taken it upon themselves to find out the truth about our country, the ones who have written this book. It started long ago, with Penn Jones, Jr., probably way before that. But Jones, who operated a small newspaper in Texas, took his calling seriously and worked to delve into the facts of the murder of John F. Kennedy, as Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and hundreds, thousands of other “journalists” chose to turn away, to build careers, make money, run for cover. There are many who would dismiss what we say here. They might offer “where is your proof?” In these pages you will find the proof that our country is overcome, in need of a truth commission. Our country is indeed broken, just as South Africa in the days of apartheid, in need of a healing ceremony. Not a giant flag unfurled from sideline to sideline across a sports stadium, but something real, something true, something to build upon, not sand, but rock.

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THE WIDESPREAD DECEPTION The Heritage Foundation published on April 25, 2012, “50 Terror Attacks Foiled Since 9/11.”[1] Key Points -The death of Osama bin Laden marked an important victory in the long war on terrorism. One year later, however, Congress and the Administration must remember that the war is not won. The nation and its leaders must be mindful of the requirements of the continued fight against terrorism at home and abroad. -Since 9/11, at least 50 publically known attempted terrorist attacks against the U.S. have been foiled — of these, at least 42 could be categorized as homegrown plots. -With the global operating environment for terrorist networks becoming increasingly hostile, homegrown terrorism has become more appealing to al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks. -The U.S. must not only continue its reliance on existing counterterrorism and intelligence tools, such as the PATRIOT Act, but also enhance cooperation among federal, state, and local authorities, as well as build mutual trust and partnerships with Muslim communities throughout the U.S. … This, from the Heritage Foundation, is part of the widespread deception, burning and out of control, like west coast wildfires, threatening to engulf the countryside. John Avlon, writing in The Daily Beast, tell us “there have been at least 45 jihadist terror attacks plotted against Americans since 9/11 — each of them thwarted by a combination of intelligence work, policing and citizen participation.” [1A] The young, hip editor at Time Magazine talks about the glory of the new One World Trade Center, showing our strength, resurgence. The Sandy Hook file is finally released, showing incredible fictional detail and yet no names of the deceased. The “backstory” on the Tsarnaevs, the patsies in the Boston Marathon bombing event, runs in a hundred big city newspapers, hits the street in the morning edition, and finally, at long last, the writers in Langley can get some needed sleep. With this series we cut a firebreak in this calculated confusing conflagration. It stops here. As we will show: the “Boston Bombing,” the Sandy Hook School Shooting, both fake. We are here to stop it. xiv

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It must be stopped. There is a “they” out there, somewhere. And there is a you and me and together are us — and we are going to stop them. It begins here, with this book, with words, with learning, with heart. Such as the White Rose Resistance fought Nazi Germany hand-to-hand with words, with writing, to save their countrymen, their nation. “I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS” Most of us do not have inside information, have not had the privilege of sitting close-by and smelling the cigar smoke of the actual plotters, but once in a while we catch a hint of a loose whiff on the wind. An article that ran in The Rock Creek Free Press, written by Sheila Casey, included an interview conducted by the CIT (Citizens Investigation Team) with an insider in the attack on the Pentagon, Lloyde England, the cab driver whose cab was allegedly speared through the front windshield by one of the light poles said to have been sheared off by the plane that hit the Pentagon. [2]: England: “You gotta understand something. When people do things and get away with it, you … eventually it’s gonna come to me, and when it comes to me, it’s gonna be so big, I can’t do nothing about it.”

 England: I wasn’t supposed to be involved with this, this is too big for me, man, this is a big thing. This is a world thing happening, I’m a small man … I’m not supposed to be involved in this. This is for other people, people who have money and all this kind of stuff.

 Interviewer: Your point that these people who have all the money …

 England: This is their thing.

 Interviewer: This is their event.

 England: This is for them.

 Interviewer: Meaning they’re doing it for their own reasons …

 England: (with conviction) That’s right. I’m not supposed to be in it. Interviewer: They must have planned it.

 England: It was planned.

 England: You know what history is? It’s not the truth. It’s “his story.” Has nothing to do with the truth.” [2] Another example of us perhaps getting our noses in behind the curtain like a dog under the circus tent is in listening to the recording of flight attendant Ceecee Lyles, apparently speaking to her husband from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93, sneaks in a word at the end. “It’s a frame.” [3] YOU HAVE TO BEGIN TO WONDER Yes, when one starts to name and name and name the fakeries, then one is going to hear snickers about Elvis. But when a person begins to understand, he has to wonder about very xv

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nearly everything the United States government, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA does, behind their massive modern walls, with the billions of dollars that we give to them. “It’s the CIA.” “That was done by the CIA.” It’s so easy to type that, to say it. But what does it really mean? Who is the CIA? Where is the CIA? It is a real place, with real people, headquartered in Langley, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The rest you will know when it is time. Until then you may believe in them, just as you do the Boston Red Sox and the mountains of County Cork where you are allegedly from, though you have seen neither in all your life, and it’s getting late. And because by now you are open to believing some things not mentioned by Brian Williams or his successors on the NBC Nightly News, you have to also wonder about the Haymarket bombs, because you know how they think, what they are capable of. [4] To not consider the possibilities — or probabilities — is to be reckless, lazy, playing loose with your child’s future. You also have to wonder about the explosion precluding the Palmer Raids. [5] From the comments section of an article on Veterans Today: Leif Oldhart March 31, 2011 - 6:07 pm “Speaking of false flag terrorism, NEVER FORGET Haymarket Square, where during a peaceful public assembly in favor of the eight-hour day, the powers that be had someone lob a bomb at the police. In the resulting riot, eleven people died and hundreds were injured. Seven cops died, so the nasty “anarchists” responsible were arrested and railroaded. Several were executed, including a newspaperman named August Spies (sounds like spees). “The Haymarket Square “Anarchist” Terror Bombing may be the seminal act of false flag terrorism in US history. So it would be a good idea to learn what you can about it. Google is a pretty good place to start.” [6] BUT WHERE IS THE PROOF! Someone might easily ask, again, and, justifiably, again and again — where is the proof? Where is the game-changer? There are many hints, but where is the rock-solid, clamp on the handcuffs stuff?

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9/11. The actor immediately telling us what happened on national TV. The Pentagon with no debris. The Dancing Israelis. The “hole” in Shanksville. The “hole” in the Pentagon. Building 7 going down when it had not been hit. Who told the fighter jets not to respond? Just look at how the buildings came down. Look at how the national television commentators immediately began naming Osama bin Laden. Look at how George W. Bush just sat there in that elementary school. The list goes on. Boston. The photographs showing the fake blood, the fake victims getting into place. The backpacks on the backs of the agents in the street and sidewalk. The woman tossing something to the old man in the street, the runner, the “bomb” goes off, he reaches for it, misses, falls to the street, the cops run up, the photographer snaps the photo, but the blood sack the man missed does not get blood into the picture, the photo is on the cover of Sport Illustrated anyway. There are many others: hints in movies, books, the “Dark Knight”. And just wondering what do you think about this in The Big Lebowski? As kids, the Coen brothers attended Camp Herzl in Wisconsin. Theodore Herzl is the founder of modern political Zionism. (Silverstein, Dancing Israelis, hmm, hmmm, hmm) One of the characters in The Big Lebowski quotes Herzl: “If you will it, it is no dream, Theodore Herzl,” says Walter Sobchak upon entering the bowling alley carrying a Pomeranian in a carrier. The Big Lebowski was filmed from January to April 1997. It was set in the early 1990s. In the opening scene, the main character “The Dude,” played by Jeff Bridges, writes a check for half and half at Ralph’s Grocery for sixty-nine cents while in the background George H.W. Bush is talking on a small black and white television saying about the Iraq invasion of Kuwait: This will not stand. The date on The Dude’s check for sixty nine cents: Sept. 11, 1991, ten years to the day. That’s not proof of anything, but why did it happen? Coincidence. Okay. If you feel that way, fine. I’ll mark it zero. Are you happy now? It’s a league game. But do you also see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps? MORRIS BERMAN, HOWARD ZINN, NOAM CHOMSKY During an acceptance speech on June 22, 2013 for the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Morris Berman mentioned that of the 315,000,000 people in the United States, maybe 200,000 read alternative websites. He praised the alternative websites and their reporters. [7] xvii

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And yet during his talk Berman does not mention the real truth, just as these alternative websites. Why? Alternative to what, I might wonder. Is he not aware? Does he just believe the government truth? I doubt that. Has he not “had time” to study, as Howard Zinn once said: “I don’t know much about the situation and the truth is, I don’t care that much about it, that’s passed, that’s a diversion from what we really have to do,” adding that debating who was behind 9/11, “gets in the way of dealing with the immediate situation”. [8] During a 2006 Internet forum event, Noam Chomsky claimed that the 9/11 truth movement peddled “arcane and dubious theories” and had distracted activists from pursuing “crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC …” [9] AND NOW, FOR THE SPORTS AT SEA … When I first heard about Osama bin Laden having been buried at sea I was pulling out of the driveway of a group home in Duluth after doing the overnight shift. I listen to sports talk radio when I drive and the morning show was detailing the news break, I assume with straight faces. When I heard about the Boston bombings I was headed to Norfolk, Nebraska to pick up my sister Donna to take a trip to Fort Collins to visit my other sister, Connie, actually for the funeral of her husband, Jack, a longtime Fort Collins radio personality and manager, reporter. I heard the Minneapolis sports talk crew droning in somber tones about the bombings and the number of limbs missing, the wheelchairs. And, if you still listen daily, as I do, you get updates from these guys, the number of missing limbs, the wheelchairs. “They” are able to put the lie everywhere immediately. And they keep it going, everywhere, all the time. That is power. But, we fight back. Mark Lane fought the lies of the Warren Commission almost immediately. David Ray Griffin fought the lies of the 9/11 Commission. Many others fought too. Luke Rudkowski and We Are Change ask unwanted questions, as do Jim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett, James Tracy. Many others do, too. — “We Are Change Confrontations” [10] — “Top Ten Reasons Sandy Hook Was An Elaborate Hoax” [10] — “U.S. Needs Pro-Democracy Revolution” [10] — “State Propaganda, Historical Revisionism, and Perpetuation of the 9/11 Myth” [10] The cover story dives deep. Roots are planted. First the event happens, the play is staged, the media takes its cue, the public is engaged, and then the detailed fake back-story is added and then it xviii

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can finally be said: this indeed happened as we said, please go about your day, move along. The dissidents are laughed at, sneered at, corralled into a corner. — “Police File On Newtown Yields Chilling Portrait” [11] — Kevin Barrett: NY Times DC correspondent covers up 9/11 [12] — “Guardians of the National Mythos” [13] UNLIKELY SOURCES OF DISINFORMATION We hear what we hear from the standard ops, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, but we are shocked when we hear the same from some we thought might possibly be on our side: Maddow, Goodman, Stewart, Maher, The Progressive, The Nation, National Public Radio. And we realize how much we are up against. It’s too much. Maybe a change of scenery would be good, get off the damn computer, join a church, hit the driving range, move to Canada, Mexico, get to know the grandkids, those old friends you argued maybe too hard against, was it four years ago? Five? Forty? No. That can’t be. But you can’t get into Canada because you burned your draft card live on the local public access channel some time ago, and you need to be here when the guy comes to fix the garbage disposal, and there’s the grandchild’s kindergarten graduation coming. You stay. IT GOES WAY, WAY BACK, it seems As Kevin Barrett says, “the terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” were virtually unheard-of until the mid-1960s, when the CIA issued a memorandum to its thousands of Operation Mockingbird media assets telling them to attack JFK assassination researchers using those words. That memo is preserved as CIA Document 1035-960, released in response to a 1976 FOIA request by none other than the New York Times. [14] Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for xix

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the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.” In his series, “Ten False Flags That Changed The World,” [15] Joe Crubaugh tells us about “Remember The Maine,” The Reichstag Fire, The Myth of Pearl Harbor, Operation Northwoods, The Gulf of Tonkin, The September 11, 2001 Attacks, and others. Even The New York Times admits that we have discovered the terrorists, and they are us. “Terrorist Plots, Helped Along by the FBI” [16] THE STRATEGY OF TENSION, TOWARD WHAT END? “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.” — A defendant, from Operation Gladio Maybe that’s what’s happening here. Because something’s happening here. Certainly things are different than the 1960s, when we thought we were really getting things done: ending war, ending poverty, ending racism. Who has time for anything like that now? We are busy. Busy paying bills. Busy. Busy. In a piece on Veterans Today, Gordon Duff argues that what we are facing is Operation Gladio on steroids or at least espresso. (“The Gift That Keeps On Giving” [17]) “Who Knew?” “The War of the Worlds” provided a template, a track record of what the public could be convinced of by the media. Whether intended or not by Orson Welles. And Richard Dolan says that even though we try, it’s going to be pretty tough for anyone to get to the bottom of the real history of the United States. “… our best estimates of U.S. archival system tell us that probably more than 50 percent of all U.S. government documents are classified … which means that … so, if you were an historian trying to put together a history of this government, of the United States, you could argue that more than half of the history of that government is secret.” [18] Maybe the JFK assassination was part of Operation Northwoods. Maybe Operation Northwoods continues to this day. Just sayin’. xx

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My post titled “Boston Wrong” got this response from a website named after the White Rose student resisters of Nazi Germany: “Mike Palecek, you are being removed from this group for rules violation. Your promoting a softly written right wing conspiracy ideology in many of your writings and that is something this group will not abide and THIS sir, is frankly offensive.” And this from Eric of the Lake Superior Writers group: I disagree with your writing Mike. However I’d love to see you share it face to face with people who lost family on 9/11. And with those who are missing arms and legs and family members in Boston. That would be a hoot. Me: Eric, hello and thanks for comment. I do think that people died on 9/11. I just don’t think it was perpetrated by Muslims with box cutters. The government story is a lie. With Boston, I don’t think anyone died or lost limbs. I respectfully submit that in this case it would be helpful if you would do a little more study. I know how that sounds, but if you could go here and read I do think it would help. (memoryholeblog – James Tracy) Eric: I swore to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. You are exercising your right to look just as ridiculous as you want. I wish you had a larger forum so more people could hear your opinions. Me: If you are serious about that you need to look at the Bushes, Clinton, Obama. These are your/our real enemies. Eric: Sorry, I have to go back to actual studying. Plus, I misplaced my tin-foil hat. And in response to a portion of a piece where I asked why liberal bloggers do not seem to want to “go there” on 9/11, Boston, Sandy Hook, etc., I got this from Mark Karlin, a liberal blogger for Buzzflash/Truthout. “I see no reason to talk about 9/11 conspiracy theory.
* The world is imploding. * The corporations run the world economy. *
We have a duopoly party running our nation. * Most of us are getting poorer and poorer. I’ll write till I die, but what is writing about 9/11 now going to do to save the Earth?” … And, so … I’m trying to understand why people don’t understand. This quote was not sent to me by Karen Kwiatkowski. I found it somewhere, but it helps me to understand a little what is going on. “I have been told by reporters that they will not report their own insights or contrary evaluations of the official 9/11 story, because to question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. xxi

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“To be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or anti-government traitor, or even being sidelined or marginalized within an academic, government service, or literary career.” “To question the official 9/11 story is simply and fundamentally revolutionary. In this way, of course, questioning the official story is also simply and fundamentally American.” “Communist” used to be a pretty sharp dagger to be able to pull out and do some damage, and then it was “liberal.” Now conspiracy theorist or tin-foil hat carries the load, the punch the old-timers do not pack anymore. Some say that “conspiracy theorists” need or desire or get satisfaction from the psychological warm, fuzzy of being in the know, fighting the power. That’s true. That does feel good. Mmmm-hmmm. Like a “sow-na.” Why would one not want to know what’s going on. Then why do some people “know” and some do not? Coincidence? Serendipity? I don’t know. Life experience, curiosity, you talked to this person, read this book, saw this video, maybe something like that. Desire to know what’s going on. I do not think it’s a desire to know or think that people do bad things. There are also many frustrations that go along with the warm, fuzzy of “being in the know.” There are so many people who do not know, who refuse to know and there is the frustration of living with that. There is also the knowing that people are dying, living in poverty, being cheated out of decent lives, for whole generations, and that it is not just a matter of the curvature of the earth or coincidence, or “we tried, we did the best we could, but, well, sorry.” It’s a matter of planning for certain people to die and live in poverty and some to live in unbelievable wealth. The “knowing” goes something like this. Knowing that the buildings on 9/11 were not brought down by fire and gravity. Knowing that the evidence shows that nobody died at Sandy Hook, as wild as that sounds. The grieving parents are actors, the school was not a functioning school, only a stage, Gene Rosen, Wayne Carver are insanely ridiculous. Of course there’s more, following, here, in this book in your hands. Knowing about Oklahoma City that more bombs were found inside the building, knowing about the death of Officer Terry Yeakey. xxii

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Knowing about Boston would mean knowing about the photographic evidence of the backpacks of the “security” details, the photographic evidence showing that the injuries were faked. And then, join the club. Whether you want to or not, now you can see that the Bushes, Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc. etc., and Cooper, Maddow, Morgan, Williams, Lauer, etc., etc. are either CIA operatives or paid off by the CIA or whatever. And that is the real world. Take off your tin-foil hat. You don’t need it anymore. You are living in reality. There Is Only You Once we thought we had hope. We had Michael Moore. We had pissed-off Republicans and that’s always a good thing. We had Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from the home team fighting for the loose puck against the boards. We had National Public Radio, The Progressive, The Nation, CommonDreams.org, Colbert at the Washington Reporters dinner, McNeil & Lehrer, Woodward & Bernstein, Peter Matthiessen … the list is long and goes on and on. But really it does not. It stops as it starts. There is no list. Not of big-time, powerful progressives telling the truth. There is only Bill Hicks. And you. But he is dead. And there was Jim Garrison. And George Carlin did what he could. We have a litany of heroes and we are thankful for that. And there are these writers in this book and a hundred more like them around the world. But will that be enough? The world is big and it is so difficult to reach so many people when you cannot get on TV, in the big daily newspapers, on the popular liberal websites (Daily Kos: You are banned for saying 9/11). For lack of just a few honest persons we have lived in Disneyland since at least 1963. And now we have a new, advanced nano-termite, the kind that has been bred lately, they come up with terms like “cognitive infiltration.” Cass Sunstein, an academic and Washington, D.C. and elsewhere bigshot says that conspiracy theorists are dangerous, take up valuable time I guess, and need to be stopped by playing mind games, black ops in Bemidji. They do it elsewhere, have for decades. Why not here? xxiii

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Especially here. There is hope. As with anything, you won’t find it the first place you look. There is no hope in Michael Moore or Amy Goodman or Matt Rothschild or Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Ruth Conniff. Russ Baker? Chris Hedges? Hmmm. If it were me, I would go to the bottom of the barrel. That’s where the good stuff is, the juice. Hope is in the comments section. Of James Tracy’s Memory Hole Blog, the articles of Gordon Duff, Jim Fetzer and Kevin Barrett on Veterans Today. There are many people out there like you. And so, we are not doomed. Well, maybe not so fast. Anyway, we’ve got good company. Example: APRIL 19, 2014 AT 1:23 AM Excellent article, as usual, thanks. I can’t help thinking that what we see today is actually relatively old. In my lifetime many have complained about the lies of the “press”. This didn’t begin with Kennedy, although that operation may have been the first leap into “in your face” boldness on their part. For some time there was a certain concern to maintain at least the semblance of objectivity. Not anymore. When I was young I remember people talking of the Soviet Union, of TASS and Pravda and how “those people are fed on lies”. Naturally, the implication was that we were not. After all, the way it was supposed to work in a “democracy” was that we were “informed voters” and our government was responsive to our wishes. How were we to be “informed” if our “news” could not be trusted? The major changes that I see are in the utter lack of pretext any longer for truth telling or “reporting”. Coupling that with the technology of digital photography has enabled them to literally manufacture “reality” without having to actually go out and get the action shots needed to support their narrative. Now, when their patrons want a meme, they simply manufacture one. When actual events occur they simply spin those in any direction they are told to. It isn’t uncommon to flip through “news” channels and find the readers presenting the same material verbatim. Aynesworth is obviously a classic “Mockingbird” graduate. In many ways the internet has enabled us to offer a curative solution for this. I suspect this xxiv

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presents a problem for them. As they lose viewers and the alternative media gains acceptance, they will, no doubt, take measures. And a comment on the Citizens From Legitimate Government website: These false-flag operations are concrete evidence of deeply malicious and dangerous private networks operating from within the depths of the national security state, which serves as the ‘muscle’ for the corporate elite. These attacks were all designed to terrorize the community and to pave the way for new authoritarian legislation. All bore characteristics of a sophisticated, well-executed operation carried out with military precision by professionals likely working for a covert section of the military/intelligence community or a private contractor (Craft International, Blackwater, Booz Allen Hamilton). All were attributed to men whose level of professionalism is far below what was required. Many of these men had ties to the U.S. Military and U.S. Intelligence. Most ended up dead, while the exceptions sat meekly in the interrogation room, under the control of the intelligence agencies, and, then, the courtroom, as a show trial (the verdict already decided by the media) ensured they would never be heard from again. There are virtually always additional suspects (professionals) who are initially reported and seen by eyewitnesses but who disappear from all official reports. There is little evidence connecting the accused to the crime, and they are usually simply a decoy who is maneuvered into the wrong place at the wrong time. There is nearly always a training exercise running shortly before, during, or scheduled for after the “attack.” It always eerily mirrors what reportedly happened. Using a training exercise to provide “cover” for preparations or execution of a covert operation is an age-old technique of military deception. The information flow is often heavily manipulated for the purpose of ensuring that damaging information is suppressed and to maximize the propaganda. The latter is accomplished through the airing of fake interviews, with actors posing as witnesses, authorities and grievers. It also often involves airing fake video footage or photographs of the event. This requires the full collaboration of the mainstream media and those few corporations that own it. What all of this represents is a full-scale psychological warfare campaign against the international public. It is designed to sew fear throughout the community, thus resulting in submission to authority. It is a “strategy of tension” that has been in operation for quite some time now. [20] We are all patsies now. Though we owe apologies to Lee Harvey Oswald, Osama bin Laden, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman, John Hinkley, Jr., Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, those guys with three names, and some with two as well: Timothy McVeigh, Adam Lanza, James Holmes. xxv

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Who else? There are more. They came for them and we watched TV, we cheered the fighters flyover the ball game, we ate strawberry swirl ice cream and watched American Idol, went back for more, we worked religiously and we went to church with reckless abandon. And some day, a Tuesday morning or Wednesday afternoon, nondescript, they will come for us. False flags make sense. They make all things possible. Three dead teenagers means it makes sense for Israel to invade Gaza. A missing plane and then that plane crashes in the Ukraine with dead bodies and it makes sense to somebody to do something. Gives them license. “A” follows B, C. And we all say, oh, yeah, yep, okay. That’s why “they” do it. “… That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” — Karl Rove Children “die” at Sandy Hook, people “die” at the Boston Marathon, in a theater in Aurora, Colorado, a federal building in Oklahoma City, in some giant buildings in New York City. And then, yes, it makes sense. Now we can do that. Before we couldn’t, but now we can. Let’s go. Let’s roll. Let’s boogie. Why can’t people just live. Why can’t we all just be good to each other, take what we need and give some to somebody else. Why do some people have to be Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama. Why? That’s a hard question, the why. Or not. There is a photo in an article on Veterans Today that is interesting. (July 25, 2014) It shows the photographer from The Newtown Bee newspaper taking the xxvi

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photo of the children being evacuated from the Sandy Hook school. That photo ran on the front page of The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. It’s a photo of her taking the photo in a casual setting, setting up the photo, setting it up to be iconic. This shows that the photo was a setup. It shows that Sandy Hook was a setup. It is the thread that starts the shredding, that unravels the United States, the bad part, the criminal, the treasonous. Sure, there is still a big, good part. This article, set of articles, by Jim Fetzer and others on Sandy Hook is bigger than the Watergate reporting by Woodward & Bernstein, and more truthful. It shows that President Barack Obama, that pillar of anti-terror and hunting down the bad guys, is a terrorist. He surely knows about all of this, as does his Head of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder. This means that the Department of Homeland Security is a terrorist organization. Terror At The Marathon The Boston Globe of course ran a big special section in Metro: “Globe coverage of the April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon and the events that followed.” It also featured an iconic photo of an older runner on the ground and three police officers standing over him after coming to his aid. That photo also was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Great shot, probably award-winning. Would have been better with some cherry-red blood, though. It’s got green and some red, but blood would really pop. There was supposed to be blood, I think. There is a video that shows someone running just in front of him tossing something back to that old man just as the bomb goes off, a packet of some sort. But, alas, he fumbles with it and does not get the nice cherry red on his legs as the Globe photographer, ready and steady, rushes up, and we are left with what might have been. But then again, why wouldn’t the old man have just carried the packet with him rather than have it tossed? But it remains that something is tossed to him as the bomb goes off, he tries to catch it, does not, falls down, gets on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His back is to the camera, but it’s still Sports Illustrated, man. The old man is only one of so many Boston “victims,” who like World Cup soccer players, are flopping all around the sidewalk with wide mouths and looking for who is noticing out the corner of their eyes. That Globe special section has it all. We are not left to wonder. It’s in xxvii

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your local newspaper. The rest of the story, the way it is. “Trauma survivor now acting as a beacon of inspiration” “Officer wounded in shoot-out heads home” “Tsarnaev indicted on 30 counts” “Times Square was next target, officials say” “Tsarnaev friend tells of beliefs in conspiracies” “Russians secretly recorded Tsarnaev calls, talks of jihad” The Official Story of Sandy Hook From “Swallowing The Camel”: On the morning of December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home they shared in Newtown, Connecticut. He then drove his mother’s Honda Civic to Sandy Hook Elementary School with four semi-automatic firearms licensed to Nancy. He took three of the guns with him when he entered the school.
 Using a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, he shot his way into the locked building at approximately 9:35 AM local time. Between that time and about 9:49 AM, he killed principal Dawn Hochsprung, school psychologist Mary Sherlach, teacher Natalie Hammond, first-grade teacher Victoria Soto, teacher’s aide Anne Marie Murphy, substitute first-grade teacher Lauren Rousseau, and 20 students who were 6 years old or younger. Six-year-old Dylan Hockley was autistic. Lanza shot all but two of his child victims multiple times; 6-year-old Noah Pozner was shot 11 times. All of the staff members died trying to stop the gunman or shield their students. Ms. Murphy covered Dylan Hockley’s body with her own. Throughout the school, teachers and faculty members hid children in closets and bathrooms, thereby saving an untold number of lives. 
Six children fled Ms. Soto’s classroom and escaped from the school, making their way to the driveway of a home owned by Gene Rosen.
 Before police could reach him, Lanza returned to Soto’s classroom and shot himself in the head with a Glock 10mm.
 His motivation remains obscure, but Lanza reportedly suffered mental and emotional problems that left him socially isolated and unable to work full-time or complete college. Around the time of the massacre, Nancy Lanza told friends she was considering leaving New England and attempting to enroll Adam in college for a third time. 
Adam had access to the weapons because his mother was an avid collector who had taught both of her sons how to shoot.

(http://swallowingthecamel.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/sandy-hook-truth-9months-later/)

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Journalism 101, 101.1, 101.2 Jim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett, Sophia Smallstorm, James Tracy, Gordon Duff, Wolfgang Halbig, and others have been doing real reporting, real journalism in the U.S.A., which has been missing since Penn Jones, Jr. ran the weekly in Midlothian, Texas. I so admire Penn Jones, Jr. I would like to share an email exchange I had awhile back with an editor of a small daily newspaper in northern Minnesota, Bill Hanna of the Mesabi Daily News of Virginia, Minnesota. I was thinking that I would like to see if there would be any part-time reporting work I might be able to do, so I sent out email notes to the area papers. Bill Hanna said: Mike: Would you be open at all to a full-time opportunity of reporting/editing? Bill, I might be. What do you have? Could we talk about it in person? Maybe next Monday or Tuesday? Could I come up and visit? Mike: Nothing definite. Just doing some adjusting in newsroom. Always willing to talk to anyone. Just curious why you got out of business. It’s been quite a while now and changes have been big. And so I told him … Then … From Bill Hanna: Mike: Certainly respect anyone’s opinions. But with such advocacy don’t see you as a fit in a very good small daily newspaper. We are about good community journalism, not novels or anti-war views or chasing 9/11 theories or blaming the media. Thanks for your comments and good luck. - Bill

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Well, thanks to Penn Jones Jr., at least the entire history of American journalism, small town and big town, has not been a disgrace. And I think it also bears mentioning at this point that the German journalists who supported and carried out the Nazi propaganda were also put on trial at Nuremberg. ... And that exchange with Bill Hanna, longtime American journalist, reminds me of who I am, why I’m doing this, reminds me of the day that I quit the Ainsworth Star-Journal after my column was canceled because I said I do not support the troops of Desert Storm. … Did you see the piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education about how the CIA helped to fund the Iowa Writers Workshop in order to influence creative writing in America to fit the American Cold War stance? Have you heard of Project Mockingbird? Do you read newspapers anymore? Watch the News on TV, listen to the news on your local radio station? Is there anywhere, any place left to go in America? Well, it’s all closing in, been closing in for years, closing up, tight. Okay now… quickly … we need to get to the real book, enough windowdressing. David Swanson, Daily Kos, Mathew Rothschild, Chris Matthews, Bill Moyers, Garrison Keillor, Geneva Overholser, Ruth Conniff, Eric Alterman, Maureen Dowd, Jeremy Scahill, Arianna Huffington, Glenn Greenwald, James Fallows, Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow — and there are hundreds more names that go here … liberal members of the mainstream media — please tell me why you do not tell the truth about 9/11, Boston, Sandy Hook, as you must know … not that I assume I know the answer … I think I do, but I might be wrong … I want to know and I am not being sarcastic, not yet, not now … I am pleading here, asking for knowledge, to know … Why, though you claim boldly to be a real journalist, and by that I assume that you are not a CIA or FBI agent in journalist disguise — why you do not go after the biggest, blockbuster stories of ours or any other generation. And the underlying story — that you won’t touch this with a twelvefoot pole — is also one of the most un-talked about big stories of our time. Please, contact me, Mike Palecek, at [email protected] to arrange to be on The New American Dream Radio Show and let’s talk about it. “Waterboarding Anderson Cooper,” sponsored by Mr. Bubble If we are going to torture people who we say we think are terrorists but we know are not really terrorists because we did 911, there are no terrorists, xxx

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no Al Queda, no reason for war, and really no information we can gain, other than to perpetuate the lie, go deeper into the story of the lie, build and embellish the lie fable — then why not also waterboard people who we know are terrorists, who were in fact our terrorists, who helped us to lie a long time ago and overturn our own country — And! And! This terrorist is one of those who really is there, who really knows the truth — and what he knows is actually real — no need to fake kill him and fake bury him at sea –One or two or maybe three quick sessions — which are not really such a big deal anyway, right? Would change the course of this whole country. Just one little Goon Afternoon live on national TV. The Committee To Waterboard Anderson Cooper — CIA agent fake reporter, who knows what is really happening. … Reporters used to be on our side, like Penn Jones Jr. and the little Texas weekly he operated. They are not anymore. The CIA has money and they figured it out. Money sells, it works, that’s how things operate. Bob Woodward, from the office of naval intelligence, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: pour a bucket of water on his grave, that son of a bitch; Peter Matthiessen, started the Paris Review to spy on Americans in France for the CIA, it likely goes on much further than we dare to imagine. William Buckley, also CIA. Those are just the ones we know of, the tip of the iceberg, as they say. Read Carl Bernstein’s article in Rolling Stone, Google Operation Mockingbird. … etc. etc. We are The Committee To Waterboard Anderson Cooper — it’s not really that bad anyway — endorsed by Allen Dulles, Dick Cheney, George Bush, George Bush, John Yoo, Barrack Obama, two jugglers, one hot air balloonist, three that we know of night shift welders, thirty-three dental hygienists, and millions of folks like you. Sponsored by Mr. Bubble … gets you so clean your mother won’t know you. Coming soon: Waterboarding Ruth Paine, Thane Eugene Caesar, Lon Horiuchi, H. Wayne Carver, Gene Rosen, and Robbie Parker. Noteworthy: The conspiracy theory CIA memo The Global Terrorism Database Teaching Terror in School The conspiracy theory CIA memo

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IA Document 1035-960 Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report 1. Our Concern. From the day of President Kennedy’s assassination on, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission Report, (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission’s published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission’s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission’s report, a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46 percent of the American public did not think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show similar, or possibly more adverse results. 2. This trend of opinion is a matter of concern to the U.S. government, including our organization. The members of the Warren Commission were naturally chosen for their integrity, experience and prominence. They represented both major parties, and they and their staff were deliberately drawn from all sections of the country. Just because of the standing of the Commissioners, efforts to impugn their rectitude and wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership of American society. Moreover, there seems to be an increasing tendency to hint that President Johnson himself, as the one person who might be said to have benefited, was in some way responsible for the assassination. Innuendo of such seriousness affects not only the individual concerned, but also the whole reputation of the American government. Our organization itself is directly involved: among other facts, we contributed information to the investigation. Conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us. The aim of this dispatch is to provide material countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number of unclassified attachments. 3. Action. We do not recommend that discussion of the assassination question be initiated where it is not already taking place. Where discussion is active [business] addresses are requested: a. To discuss the publicity problem with [?] and friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission xxxii

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as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets. Our ploy should point out, as applicable, that the critics are (I) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (I) politically interested, (III) financially interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate
in their research, or (V) infatuated with their own theories. In the course of discussions of the whole phenomenon of criticism, a useful strategy may be to single out Epstein’s theory for attack, using the attached Fletcher [?] article and Spectator piece for background. (Although Mark Lane’s book is much less convincing that Epstein’s and comes off badly where confronted by knowledgeable critics, it is also much more difficult to answer as a whole, as one becomes lost in a morass of unrelated details.) 4. In private to media discussions not directed at any particular writer, or in attacking publications which may be yet forthcoming, the following arguments should be useful: a. No significant new evidence has emerged which the Commission did not consider. The assassination is sometimes compared (e.g., by Joachim Joesten and Bertrand Russell) with the Dreyfus case; however, unlike that case, the attack on the Warren Commission have produced no new evidence, no new culprits have been convincingly identified, and there is no agreement among the critics. (A better parallel, though an imperfect one, might be with the Reichstag fire of 1933, which some competent historians (Fritz Tobias, AJ.P. Taylor, D.C. Watt) now believe was set by Vander Lubbe on his own initiative, without acting for either Nazis or Communists; the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the Communists, but the latter have been more successful in convincing the world that the Nazis were to blame.) b. Critics usually overvalue particular items and ignore others. They tend to place more emphasis on the recollections of individual witnesses (which are less reliable and more divergent -- and hence offer more hand-holds for criticism) and less on ballistics, autopsy, and photographic evidence. A close examination of the Commission’s records will usually show that the conflicting eyewitness accounts are quoted out of context, or were discarded by the Commission for good and sufficient reason. xxxiii

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c. Conspiracy on the large scale often suggested would be impossible to conceal in the United States, esp. since informants could expect to receive large royalties, etc. Note that Robert Kennedy, Attorney General at the time and John F. Kennedy’s brother, would be the last man to overlook or conceal any conspiracy. And as one reviewer pointed out, Congressman Gerald R. Ford would hardly have held his tongue for the sake of the Democratic administration, and Senator Russell would have had every political interest in exposing any misdeeds on the part of Chief Justice Warren. A conspirator moreover would hardly choose a location for a shooting where so much depended on conditions beyond his control: the route, the speed of the cars, the moving target, the risk that the assassin would be discovered. A group of wealthy conspirators could have arranged much more secure conditions. d. Critics have often been enticed by a form of intellectual pride: they light on some theory and fall in love with it; they also scoff at the Commission because it did not always answer every question with a flat decision one way or the other. Actually, the make-up of the Commission and its staff was an excellent safeguard against over-commitment to any one theory, or against the illicit transformation of probabilities into certainties. e. Oswald would not have been any sensible person’s choice for a coconspirator. He was a “loner,” mixed up, of questionable reliability and an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service. f. As to charges that the Commission’s report was a rush job, it emerged three months after the deadline originally set. But to the degree that the Commission tried to speed up its reporting, this was largely due to the pressure of irresponsible speculation already appearing, in some cases coming from the same critics who, refusing to admit their errors, are now putting out new criticisms. g. Such vague accusations as that “more than ten people have died mysteriously” can always be explained in some natural way e.g.: the individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes; the Commission staff questioned 418 witnesses (the FBI interviewed far more people, conduction 25,000 interviews and re interviews), and in such a large group, a certain number of deaths are to be expected. (When Penn Jones, one of the originators of the “ten mysterious deaths” line, appeared on television, it emerged that two of the deaths on his list were from heart attacks, one from cancer, one was from a head-on collision on a bridge, and one occurred when a driver drifted into a bridge abutment.) 5. Where possible, counter speculation by encouraging reference to the Commission’s Report itself. Open-minded foreign readers should still be xxxiv

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impressed by the care, thoroughness, objectivity and speed with which the Commission worked. Reviewers of other books might be encouraged to add to their account the idea that, checking back with the report itself, they found it far superior to the work of its critics. The Global Terrorism Database (http://www.start.umd.edu)

At START, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses To Terrorism, you can find all sorts of stuff, a list of terror actions, lists of terror groups. You will find a PDF file: Integrated United States Security Database (IUSSD): Data on the Terrorist Attacks in the United States Homeland, 1970 to 2011.

(http://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/publications/START_ IUSSDDataTerroristAttacksUS_1970-2011.pdf)

And to think that it’s all based in lies. I think they do this because if there is so much information and such a nice website, it has to be true. Much the same for the Washington Post in-depth articles about the Tsarnaev brothers and their history. If there is some guy who knew them when they said this or that back then, then the whole lie we are asking you to believe is true. I know, right?

College Terrorism 101 (Or Nothing Is Over Until We Say It’s Over … Was It Over When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No! … And It Ain’t Over Now!) Kevin Barrett and James Tracy, university professors, have both been hounded because of their attempts to teach critical inquiry into important topics. Here is an example from the “other side”. Why is it allowed? TERRORISM SINCE 9/11 The American Cases March 2014 “This book includes a detailed discussion, each organized in a similar manner, of the cases that have come to light of Islamist extremist terrorism since 9/11, whether based in the United States or abroad, in which the United States itself has been, or apparently has been, targeted. It mostly springs from papers generated in honors seminars I conducted at Ohio State University. I have added an introduction as well as a headnote for each case. Since we plan to update, revise, and correct, and then to re-post from time to time, each case study and each headnote is dated and carries its own individual pagination. — John Mueller “Included in this study, then, are cases of four types: xxxv

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1) Islamist extremist conspiracies or connections that, in the view of the authorities, might eventually develop into plots to commit violence in the United States, 2) Islamist extremist terrorist plots to commit violence in the United States, no matter how embryonic, that have been disrupted, 3) Islamist extremist plots to commit violence in the United States that were essentially created or facilitated in a major way by the authorities and then rolled up by arrest when enough evidence was accumulated—including in some cases having the would-be perpetrator actually push the button that he mistakenly believed would set off an explosion, and 4) Cases in which an Islamist extremist terrorist or terrorist group actually commits, or tried to commit, violence in the United States.” http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/SINCE.pdf

James Tracy, on his website Memory Hole Blog, mentioned Attorney General Eric Holder’s concern with “homegrown extremists”: “Eric Holder wants to convey his all-consuming concern over ‘lone wolf homegrown violent extremists’ who have ‘domestic concerns.’ http://

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Tracy was writing about a Holder appearance on a TV news show, ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos, to talk about these domestic threats that “keep him up at night,” specifically the Tsarnaev brothers and the individuals involved in the Las Vegas shooting of two police officers. In the article Tracy goes on to discuss the anomalies of the Las Vegas event. • Government “fusion centers” are a part of the Department of Homeland Security’s vast network to fight so-called terrorism. Fusion center: A fusion center is an information sharing center, many of which were jointly created between 2003 and 2007 under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. military, and state- and local-level government. As of July 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognized at least 72 fusion centers. Fusion centers may also be affiliated with an Emergency Operations Center that responds in the event of a disaster. The fusion process is an overarching method of managing the flow of information and intelligence across levels and sectors of government to xxxvi

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integrate information for analysis.[1] That is, the process relies on the active involvement of state, local, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies — and sometimes on non-law enforcement agencies (e.g., private sector) — to provide the input of raw information for intelligence analysis. As the array of diverse information sources increases, there will be more accurate and robust analysis that can be disseminated as intelligence. We also find a senate report that says fusion centers are a waste of time, there is no domestic terrorism. “A two-year senate investigation found that “the fusion centers often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever.”[2][3] The report also said that in some cases the fusion centers violated civil liberties or privacy.[4]” Okay, Let’s Make A List Wikipedia has a long list for “Terrorism in the United States,” beginning with the lynching of a slavery abolitionist in 1837. The list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States) includes references to Ted Kacynski, John Brown, John Wilkes Booth, McKinley, anarchist bombings, Orlando Letelier, David Gunn, Medgar Evers, Alan Berg, The Earth Liberation Front, and many others. It also includes groupings of terrorism by type: KKK, Christian extremism, anarchism, leftist militancy, black militancy, Puerto Rican nationalists, and more. So, there is a lot to choose from and where do we begin? Well, my time is short and I’ve already talked too long, so I must begin and end with government false terrorism, false flags. Definition of False Flag “False flag terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it: False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension. xxxvii

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The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy’s flag was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a “false flag” attack. It’s All About Me The mind of an American rules the world. The President? Warren Buffett? Tiger Woods? Katie Couric? Jon Stewart? The Michelin Man? No, stupid, it’s you. You are king of the world, god, superman, King Midas, all that. It’s you. You are more than just a legend in your own mind. You are The Man. And when the CIA through the CIA propaganda machine called Radio Free Europe or the American Free Press tells you the Russians are coming or the criminals are coming or terrorists or the Iranians or Iraqis of Afghans on nuclear-powered blue donkeys or big bees, and you believe it — well, then, Zeke, that’s how the world will go. You are powerful, the most powerful yahoo who has ever lived in the history of living. And you are an idiot. And the world is going to burn. You are not an idiot-on-purpose, but an idiot none-the-less. The CIA, the persons in the CIA, are smart. But they are evil. The actual Evil Empire. And they control you. The most powerful person in the world. If you were not an idiot they could not do that. But you are an idiot. And that’s a bummer, man. That’s a bummer. … Do you read comment sections that follow most articles on the internet. I do. Sometimes they are very instructive. These comments followed an article that spoke about two candidates in Arkansas who both believe that Sandy Hook was a hoax. Let’s listen in, be a fly on the wall in the kitchen on a hot summer morning in Arkansas. It could be fun. We might learn something. xxxviii

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“This is absolutely shameful. I’m an Arkansan now living in New York. My husband works with the father of one of the children who died in that massacre. To deny what happened there is absolutely disgusting.” “Another pair of crawly-bottom mouth breathers. Wonder how much they’ll get from the money slingers.” “These people are scum. And the people who vote for them are scum.” “These guys wouldn’t have to go very far to check out their claim. Jesse Lewis, a six-year-old “alleged” victim had (has?) relatives in NW Arkansas. Go find one of them and ask if Jesse is still alive. Dare you.” “Amazing that we live in an era where facts don’t matter. The mass media’s unwillingness to call anything a lie is partially to blame.” “Just no words....... I MEAN REALLY?” “This subject got me to thinking about similar hoaxes. 
Max alluded to one of them. The moon landing never happened. It was just a plot to sell Tang. Certain Iranians and the KKK also tell us that the Holocaust never happened. That was an evil ploy to build sympathy for the Jews for their annexation of some prime real estate in the Middle East. You know how Jews are...

If course if the Holocaust is fictional, you would wonder whether or not the whole context of it was all made up. World War II? How about World War I? All this supposedly happened before I was born. How could I confirm it!? Maybe the newspapers just hated Germans and Japs. Makes sense to me. Civil War? Doubtful. Slavery? Laughable, couldn’t possibly be truth -- just an excuse for welfare queens and affirmative action...and Obama. 

It’s hard to know for sure about anything unless you were actually there at the time. There are very few truths of which we can be absolutely certain. One of them is that Jesus Christ died for your sins 2014 years ago so that 7 or 8 of us can go to Heaven some day and that Jesus’ dad ordered us to stone gays to death with stones about a thousand years prior to that. Other than that, we can know very little for an absolute fact.” “i like them to have seen the look on my 17 yr old cousins face and the 4 funerals we saw when we visited her in newton,ct on dec.19,2012. plus all the new media from new york city that was present throughout the town. she was in school at the high school; which was across the parking lot from sandy hook.” “Now let me get this straight … these people who pretend to see and talk xxxix

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to Jesus missed 2 weeks, at least, of non-stop TV coverage...67 dozen clips of little body bags being loaded in ambulances & hearses? They believe in some ghosts that no one has ever laid eyes on in over 2000 years … but they don’t believe 20 little grade school kids were slaughtered by a crazy man with super powerful weapons that never should be allowed in private homes. 

Wonder if these 2 guys believes bullets actually come from the muzzle of a gun? Do they believe guns are real? Do they think it might hurt to be shot...even with just a 22 … do they think bullets bounce off human skin … even little girl skin? Do they understand firearms at all? Do they not also think firearms are dangerous and can kill?

 Maybe if someone shot them they’d smarten up … they’d not be having any grey area if they experienced bright red blood gushing out of their bodies. I never heard of anyone so stupid they had to be shot to learn a lesson but these guys might be setting a new trend in ignorance. Anyone who votes for them when the election comes should be fenced off from the rest of the community too. What kind of human votes for candidates this dog-stupid? … my apologies to dogs.

 You don’t have to have kids to still be super upset about the massacre at Sandy Hook but let me tell you as a parent, I doubt there’s anything that would make me suddenly get real unfriendly faster than an idiot saying the massacre at Sandy Hook didn’t happen. 

Are we sure we’re sure about America being a good country? And if so, what are we basing that assumption on?” “If one (such as Trump) believes a 6 week old Kenyan kid could sneak himself and his parents into Hawaii AND post date his birth certificate into public records, with the master plan of world domination 50 years later, faking a mass elementary shooting is small potatoes!
 Too bad the magical Kenyan infant hadn’t spoken to infant Ted Cruz and found out an American Mother is all you need to be a citizen.

 When I was 6 weeks old all I thought about was titties, sleeping and crapping (not much different 50 years old).

Only Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were able to scheme stealing the POTUS intrauterine.

What next? 

Obama packed the Boston Pressure Cooker Bomb for those fellows? 
Obama is loosing his touch, those Eastern European brothers botched the marathon unpleasantry by getting caught! Ignorant people are gullible … and we have lots of ignorant people.” “My Lord has everyone gone Bonkers … Saying Sandy Hook was a Hoax. What do you think the Families of all the victims would think? If this is the way you think we do not need any of you in any position. ED Moser you need to re think what you said, NO a matter of fact keep thinking it and you will never win. Get a life people. Check your facts before opening your mouths.” “Since these two jokers lack the intelligence (and courage) to travel to Sandy Hook and conduct an unfettered investigation, perhaps they can get to a nearby gun-control hoax, in Jonesboro. 

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recommend flak jackets (preferably faulty ones made by a company connected to Cheney), an escort of fast-retreating local journalists, and a medical team of first-year health administration students on standby. I’m certain that as soon as these would-be politicians started asking relatives if the Westside Middle School massacre was a hoax orchestrated by gun control fanatics, the relatives would be exercising their perceived 2nd Amendment rights.

 Here are two articles obviously planted by George Soros and Islamic Jihadists to cunningly disarm.” “Jesus wept.” “We moved here from California six years ago and love it. Really friendly people, lots of whom, when they hear California, will mention the Breakfast State: full of nuts and fruit. 

That always makes me give them a huge smile. Nuts and fruit indeed.”

(www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/06/16/sandy-hook-massacrea-hoax-two-arkansas-candidates-seem-to-think-so)

American History 101 Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John F. Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan did not kill Robert F. Kennedy James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King, Jr. Timothy McVeigh did not blow up the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building on his own Osama bin Laden was not buried at sea, did not plan, take part in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 The U.S. Government burned children alive on purpose at Waco Senator Paul Wellstone was assassinated in a plane crash in the north woods forest near Eveleth, MN because he opposed the coming war on Iraq Adam Lanza did not kill anyone, if he even existed Nobody died at Sandy Hook. Nobody died at Boston. There are many lies that make up official United States History 101. Not all are exactly false flags, but the lies, the lies. One of big, interesting questions for me is how do they do this? Internally and also intellectually ... it’s fascinating ... a mystery ... also the mystery of the liberal pundits - big names who either won’t say anything or attack the conspiracy theorists. Kevin Barrett told me: Well, they are psychopaths, that’s how. But that doesn’t do it for me. There is more than that. “They are all just crazy.” I would say they are probably not all crazy, probably none of them are xli

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crazy. That’s more in the direction of what I really feel, believe. I think it is more in line with what someone once said about the banality of evil. Of course, it’s in all of us, but still. I think what happens, perhaps, is that people do evil while believing they are doing good. Or maybe it’s for the money. Maybe the excitement. Something to do. I know from experience that Tuesday afternoons almost never end. The power. Hmmm. It’s all so very interesting and so very frustrating, seemingly impossible to get to, the inner workings of how these things happen, why, by whom, how and when and where are they planned, carried out, covered up. You have to agree that it’s fascinating. Jon Rappoport was on James Tracy’s radio show, and he said this, in talking about how “they” do what they do, how they create this world where we have these people on the Arkansas blog and the people next to us in church and at the stoplight not knowing, like The Truman Show, what reality really is. Rappoport is talking about the mindset of these actual planners, maybe Karl Rove, maybe Rahm Emmanuel, maybe some smart guys in a nice office with lots of windows in Utah, who all go to the same church and play on the same summer softball team in Bluffdale. “... how am I going to frame reality today so that the population receives it and accepts it so that there really is no difference between what they perceive and the reality that I am inventing for them, the painter. It’s a marriage. It isn’t just the painting I am painting, it’s also the embrace of the painting by that individual.” (Jon Rappoport on James Tracy radio show, Checkin’ It Out …http:// memoryholeblog.com/2014/07/13/journalism-education-and-the-matrix/)

And maybe there you have it. Remember The White Rose: Sophie, Hans, Alexander, Kurt, Christoph, Willi. Be The White Rose.

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Notes [1] The Heritage Foundations published on April 25, 2012 “50 Terror Attacks Foiled Since 9/11.”

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/fifty-terror-plots-foiled-since9-11-the-homegrown-threat-and-the-long-war-on-terrorism

[1A] John Avlon, The Daily Beast, Sept. 8, 2011, “Forty-Five Foiled Terror Plots Since 9/11

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/08/9-11-anniversary-45-terrorplots-foiled-in-last-10-years.html

[2] Sheila Casey, Rock Creek Free Press, April 2009, “Eyewitnesses Contradict Pentagon Story” – Lloyde England, taxi cab driver whose cab was said to have been hit by a light pole sheered off by the plane that hit the Pentagon. [3] Ceecee Lyles airphone call allegedly from UA93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiX7mNV4ab0

[4] Haymarket bombs

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/67874/republican-lawyer-recommendedfalse-flag-operation-to-discredit-wisconsin-unions/

[5] “The Mother of All Black Ops: The Palmer Raids Were Another Mass Deception of the American People … “

http://9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com/2010/03/palmer-raidswere-another-mass_11.html

[6] “Western Governments Admit Carrying Out ‘False Flag’ Terror”, Veterans Today

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/28/western-governments-admit-carryingout-false-flag-terror/

[7] “In Praise of Shadows”: Morris Berman’s acceptance speech for the 2013 Neil Postman Award http://www.teemingbrain.com/tag/morris-berman/

[8] 911: Say It Ain’t So, Howard Zinn!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-say-it-ain-t-so-howard-zinn/13488

[9] Howard Zinn: “I Don’t Care” If 9/11 Was An Inside Job, Prison Planet,

http://www.prisonplanet.com/howard-zinn-i-dont-care-if-911-was-an-inside-job.html

[10] We Are Change Confrontations

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECC886187911762D

[10] Jim Fetzer: Top Ten Reasons Sandy Hook Was An Elaborate Hoax

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/07/top-ten-reasons-sandy-hook-wasan-elaborate-hoax/

[10] Kevin Barrett: U.S. Needs Pro-Democracy Revolution”

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/04/18/359029/us-needs-prodemocracyrevolution/

[10] James Tracy: State Propaganda, Historical Revisionism, and Perpetuation of the 9/11 Myth”

http://memoryholeblog.com/2012/05/06/state-propaganda-historicalxliii

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[11] “Police File On Newtown Yields Chilling Portrait”

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/police-file-be-released-newtown-shooting-0

[12] Kevin Barrett/NY Times DC correspondent covers up 9/11

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/27/342150/nyts-dc-correspondent-coversup-911/

[13] “Guardians of the National Mythos”

http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/04/18/guardians-of-the-nationalmythos/#more-10670

[14] Kevin Barrett, Press TV, “DC Correspondent Covers Up 9/11”

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/12/27/342150/nyts-dc-correspondent-coversup-911/ [15] Ten False Flags That Changed The World, Joe Crubaugh, joecrubaugh. com/blog/2007/01/18/10-false-flags-that-changed-the-world/

[16] Terrorist Plots, Helped Along by the FBI [15]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helpedalong-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[17] Duff, “Gladio, The Gift That Keeps on Giving,” Veterans Today

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/07/gladio-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

[18] “Tin Foil Hat or Not,” by Gordon Duff, Veterans Today http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/02/09/tin-foil-hat-or-not/

[19] Comments Section, Memory Hole Blog [ ] lophatt says: APRIL 19, 2014 AT 1:23 AM

http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/04/18/guardians-of-the-national-mythos/ comment-page-1/#comments

[20] Comments for “False Flag Stew” http://www.legitgov.org/False-Flag-Stew

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Contributors Dennis Cimino has extensive engineering and support experience with military electronics, predominantly US Navy Combat Systems, was the Navy’s top EMI troubleshooter before he went to work for Raytheon in the 1980s. He has collaborated with Jim Fetzer on many articles about “false flag” attacks, including (with regard to Sandy Hook), “The Nexus of Tyranny: The Strategy behind Tucson, Aurora and Sandy Hook” (30 January 2013), “Sent worldwide, Shannon Hicks’ ‘iconic’ photo was faked” (18 July 2014), and “Sandy Hook, Stephen Sedensky, William Shanley and the Elaborate Hoax” (28 July 2014). He has also published extensively on various aspects of 9/11. His articles on the Pentagon, for example, include “The ‘official account’ of the Pentagon is a fantasy” (2012), “9/11: A World Swirling in a Volcano of Lies” (14 February 2014) and “Reflections on the Pentagon: A Photographic Review” (16 August 2014), and “Limited Hangouts: Kevin Ryan, A&E911 and The Journal of 9/11 Studies” (with Jim Fetzer, 14 August 2014).     Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D., professor emeritus of political science at a U.S. university and author of university press books and countless peer-reviewed articles, maintains the site fellowshipoftheminds.com, where more than 80 articles on Sandy Hook are archived, including (among her more recent) “BBC admits but will not investigate why pic of Sandy Hook’s Noah Pozner is among Peshawar massacre victims” (7January 2015), “Sandy Hook: The boys who were evacuated TWICE” (26 January 2015), “Citizen speaks out on Sandy Hook hoax at Connecticut State committee hearing” (6 March 2015), “Former state trooper Wolfgang Halbig files Sandy Hook lawsuit” (8 March 2015), “Sandy Hook families sue Lanza estate, as Newtown demolishes the Lanza home” (18 March 2015), “Sandy Hook dad Lenny Pozner’s website redirects to Obama regime’s NSA” (7 July 2015), and “Sandy Hook families each gets $94k to settle lawsuits against Lanza estate” (21 August 2015).  

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Jim Fetzer earned his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science. A former Marine Corps officer, he has published widely on the theoretical foundations of scientific knowledge, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolution and mentality. McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he has also conducted extensive research into the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11 and the plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone. The founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, his latest books include The Place of Probability in Science (with Ellery Eells, 2010) plus And I Suppose we didn’t go to the moon, either? (2015), which was his 30th. He has also published more than 30 articles about Sandy Hook.   Sterling Harwood, J.D., Ph.D. has served as a practicing attorney in San Jose, CA since 1998. He has tenure as an adjunct Professor at Evergreen Valley College after teaching at: Cornell Law School, Lincoln Law School, San Jose State University, Illinois State University, San Jose City College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.  His books include: Crime and Punishment: Philosophic Explorations (with Michael J. Gorr, 2000), Business as Ethical and Business as Usual (1996), Judicial Activism: A Restrained Defense (1996), and Controversies in Criminal Law (with Michael J. Gorr, 1992).  Since 1989 he has published dozens of essays in legal, moral and political philosophy.  His most recent essays are “Did ‘Tricky Dick’ Land Men on the Moon?” and “The Beatles’ Greatest Mystery” in And I suppose we didn’t go to the moon, either? (2015).   Nicholas Kollerstrom, Ph.D., has two history of science degrees, one from Cambridge 1968, plus a Ph.D. from London, 1995. An honorary member of staff of UCL for 11 years, he was in 1999 elected as a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he has several dozen articles on the history of astronomy in academic journals. His book, Terror on the Tube (3rd edition, 2011), establishes that the accused Islamic youth were innocent of the 2005 London bombings. Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth and Reality (2014), demonstrates that the official narrative of WWII cannot be sustained. He contributed four chapters to And I suppose we didn’t go to the moon, either?. His latest book, The Life and Death of Paul McCartney 1942-66: A Very English Mystery (2015), has just appeared.   Vivian Lee, Ph.D., the nom de plume of a tenured professor at an American university whose research interests include war, psyops, and propaganda, with a current focus on false flag terrorism and shootings along with the media’s role in these staged events. The Sandy Hook and Boston Marathon narratives figure prominently due to their significant impact on US national policy, their importance for the conditioning of the public mentality, and the boost they have given to the production, dissemination, and acceptance of fake news xlvi

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worldwide. She has updated and revised the original “Top Ten Reasons: Sandy Hook was an Elaborate Hoax” (7 January 2014), of which she was the lead author with Sofia Smallstorm, James Tracy, Jim Fetzer and other members of the Sandy Hook Research Group, for publication here.   Mike Palecek lives in Saginaw, Minnesota, west of Duluth. A writer, he is a former federal prisoner for peace and the Iowa Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District in the 2000 election, gaining 65,000 votes on an anti-war platform in a conservative district. A former award winning reporter, editor, publisher in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota. The small newspaper that Mike & Ruth Palecek owned and operated in Byron, Minnesota, won the MNA Newspaper of the Year Award in 1993. He co-hosts “The New American Dream” radio show and has published over a dozen books that offer fictional but insightful studies of the American character and the plight in which we find ourselves in the world today. Mike is the founder of Moon Rock Books and the co-editor of this volume.   Allen William Powell, born in the United Kingdom, has retired and resides in Canberra, AU. When he appeared on “The Real Deal Ep. #81 Explosive New Revelations about Sandy Hook” hosted by Jim Fetzer, it became apparent that one of the leading experts on mischief in Connecticut resided half-way around the world. He has made several additional appearances, including “The Real Deal Ep. 83 Allen Powell does the Boston bombing”, “The Real Deal Ep. 87 The Lanza Home: A Prop for Sandy Hook”, and “The Real Deal Ep. 96 More Sandy Hook”, which are accessible via a search using their titles. His contributions here, “Ch. 7 (with Kelley Watt), “Fixing a Prop: Furnishing the Lanza Home” and “Ch. 8 Setting the Stage: Refurbishing the School”, are going to qualify as the most brilliant studies published on Sandy Hook, which provide unexpected but decisive proof that this was a staged event.   James Tracy, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, has been on the faculty since 2002. He received his doctorate from The University of Iowa, specializing in the areas of political economy of the news media and media history and criticism, and has published numerous academic journal articles and book chapters in these areas. In early 2013, major Western news outlets attacked Tracy for public commentaries on journalistic coverage of the Sandy Hook school massacre and Boston Marathon bombing events, which he had circulated via alternative media. Because of the considerable publicity, Florida Atlantic’s administration embarked on formal disciplinary measures against Tracy, later proven baseless and rescinded.

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He maintains memoryholeblog.com, where his studies of Sandy Hook and other events, such as the Boston bombing, are very popular and widely read.    Kelley Watt became a Sandy Hook skeptic a month after it was presented as a “live” event on national television. Owning a residential/commercial cleaning service for 18 years prompted her calls to several Connecticut state agencies ( Connecticut’s Environmental Protection Agency, Connecticut State Police and the Connecticut Major Crimes Squad) to whom she addressed the question, “Who received the contract to clean up the blood (bio hazard) at Sandy Hook?” None of them had an answer to this simple  question, when their responses was either  “We don’t know” or the priceless response of Lt. Paul Vance, “What blood?” She then began making several hundred phone calls to the Chief Medical Examiner and to the Town Clerk’s Office, for example, asking basic questions. Rather than being helpful they were rude and would state, “This really happened; how dare you say it didn’t”. With hundreds of people in Connecticut saying the same thing,”This really happened”, and becoming defensive, I knew something was not right with what we were being told. I then contacted all the Connecticut news outlets numerous time sand again was met with hostility and threatened with legal action if I called asking any more questions. It was a combination of these attempts I made to find the answers that led me to question and disbelieve everything surrounding this event. 

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Thinking about Sandy Hook: Reality or Illusion?

by Jim Fetzer “It ain’t what we don’t know that hurts us; it’s what we think we know that ain’t so.”—Will Rogers

The Sandy Hook experience has divided Americans, most of whom have been convinced by media coverage that it was a real event, where a young man massacred 20 children and six adults before killing himself. Another substantial segment of the US population has taken a closer look at the evidence and drawn the conclusion it was a hoax, where no children really died: it was an elaborate psy-op to promote gun control.

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Americans are hard pressed to sort these things out, because they are hit with a blizzard of reports that appear to confirm the official account, leaving them in the predicament of not being able to tell if it was real or fake. It matters even more today because gun control has become one of the defining issues of politics in America, where leading Democrats (Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) are using their authority as President (in the first instance) to issue Executive Orders constraining our 2nd Amendment 3

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rights and (in the second) threatening to impose liability laws upon their manufacturers for their use by those who buy them. Ben Carson, on the Republican side, has observed that Jews would have been better able to fend off The Third Reich had they not been disarmed; and Matt Drudge has challenged the President to demonstrate his sincerity by giving up his (heavily armed) Secret Service protection. The appeals to Sandy Hook (shooting 20 children), the Charleston shooting (of nine blacks) and the  Oregon shooting (where college students were asked their religion and those responding “Christian” were shot in the head) has struck some observers as appearing to be calculated to instill fear into specific targeted subpopulations of the American community: parents, blacks and Christians, for example, where it’s as though we were experiencing  a series of psy-ops to convince the public that we ought to give up our guns. That troubles many, because disarming populations has all-too-often occurred to set the stage for tyranny in world history past. What if Sandy Hook was only an illusion?

Probabilities vs. Certainties Knowledge of historical events (based upon documents and records, photos and videos and witness testimony, for example) can never be “definitive and certain”. You only know your own origin in life (where and when you were born and the parents who brought you into this world) on the basis of information that could have been faked. Even DNA comparisons can be invalid or mistaken on purpose or by accident. Your belief about today’s day/month/year is something else of which you have no direct and certain knowledge but rather have a host of sources of information, such as newspapers and television reports, which collectively confirm your belief but could be fabricated or faked, but which are almost always accurate and true. ​ he occurrence of an elaborate hoax intended to fool the people does not T occur often, but there can be no doubt that it does sometimes occur. The Warren Report (1964), for example, provides an indictment of Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin of JFK, where the evidence for that conclusion was carefully selected and, in some cases, completely fabricated.  The backyard photographs were faked, for example, and the home movies of the assassination were edited. That he had been captured in a famous photo taken during the shooting was suppressed. (Check out The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003) or many articles about JFK at jamesfetzer.blogspot.com for abundant proof, if you like.) These things can and sometimes do happen. And one of them happened here.

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If you only read the government’s account, you might very well be convinced that JFK had been killed by Lee Oswald. And if you only paid attention to the mass media, you would probably believe that 20 children died at Sandy Hook. Once you acknowledge that some of the evidence has been fabricated or faked, however, the case begins to assume a completely different character. This does not mean we cannot know what happened in this instance, but it should not have been necessary to frame a guilty man.  New evidence or alternative hypotheses may thus require us to revise our position by rejecting hypotheses we previously accepted, accepting hypotheses we previously rejected and leaving others in suspense. We now know more about Sandy Hook.

Inference to the best explanation The principle known as “inference to the best explanation”, has the potential to turn every American into a critical thinker in comparing alternative hypotheses. In relation to Sandy Hook, there are two alternatives, which have consequences that would also be true (or probably true) if they were true and others that would be false (or probably false) if they were not (setting the alleged suicide by Adam Lanza to the side): (h1) Sandy Hook was a real event, where 20 children and 6 adults were killed at a school; (h2) Sandy Hook was an elaborate hoax, where a drill was conducted and no children died. 5

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But the key to understanding is making an appraisal of which of these hypotheses is better supported by the evidence. We can think of the evidence as effects of one or another hypothesis as their cause. When one hypothesis makes the effects more probable than the other, it is more likely to be true and the alternative false. For the shooting to have been real, the school had to have been operational in 2012; yet we have indication after indication that it had been abandoned by 2008 (which you will discover in Chapters 2 and 3), including not only its deplorable physical condition (both inside and out), but also that it was not in compliance with both federal and state laws required in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act: 

Analogously, we know from past experience that the names, ages and sex of victims of crimes are almost invariably printed in newspaper accounts of crimes. In this case, however, the final reports coming from the Connecticut authorities did not include them. That is a very odd aspect of this event, but an attempt has been made to explain it away on the ground of preserving the privacy of the families of the victims. But if there were victims, their families already know they are dead. There is no evident benefit to the families, if it was real, but a major element of the cover up, if it was not.  From the date of the event, we have a photograph taken from a CT State Police chopper at 9:15 AM/ET, which is 20 minutes before the first 911 call came in; there was no surge of EMTs into the building to rush those little bodies off to hospitals, where doctors could pronounce them dead or alive; virtually all of the emergency vehicles were kept at the Firehouse, which became the center of activity as opposed to the school; the parents were not 6

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even allowed to identify their children, which was done using photos. As a parent myself, I can emphasize that there is no way I could have been kept from viewing the body of a child of mine, where the conduct of the “parents” in this case is unlike that of any parents I have ever known, where these many oddities are confirmed by Chapter 5.

Other circumstantial anomalies If the school had been abandoned, then the shooting has to be an illusion, since there would have been no students present for Adam Lanza to shoot. And if that were the case, then we might not be surprised if any number of measures were taken at the time by authorities to suppress relevant information (and thereby making it unavailable) or by otherwise circumventing what would have been the ordinary and normal procedures of investigation and administration by local and state authorities. But the measures that were taken were rather extraordinary, including these examples: * the Attorney General of Connecticut argued against releasing the 911 calls, where the court ruled against him; * the Clerk of Newtown entered into secret negotiations with the state legislature to avoid issuing death certificates; * a special panel of the state legislature recommended that any state employee who released information about Sandy Hook other than via Freedom of Information Act request be prosecuted as an E-felony with a five year sentence; and, * those who were hired to participate in the demolition of the school building were required to sign life-time gag orders that prohibit them from talking about what they saw or did not see during its destruction. Each of these qualifies as a “fact” insofar as its truth can be confirmed by research you can conduct yourself. Admittedly, if all the information accessible via the Internet about Sandy Hook were fabricated or faked, then that would not be the case. But I know of no one who seriously contests any of these points. So ask yourself, what is the probability that these five claims (if we also include the missing names, ages and sex from the final report) would be true if Sandy Hook had been a real event? And by comparison, what is the probability these five claims would be true if Sandy Hook had been a hoax? Which hypothesis is more likely to be true?

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The Governor’s Press Conference The day of the shooting, Governor Dan Malloy and his Lt. Governor held a press conference, during which he observed that they had been “spoken to” that something like this might happen. That got me thinking about, “something like this”? What could that mean. There are only two alternatives:  (a) that he had been told there would be a shooting in a school in his state, in which case he, as governor, should have warned school districts to be on high alert and make sure it did not happen, which he did not do; or,  (b) that he had been told they would be taking an abandoned school and using it as a prop for a drill, which would be presented to the public as real to promote an aggressive gun-control agenda, which is the case here. And when I looked into recent visits with the Governor to determine by whom he might have been “spoken to”, I discovered that Attorney General Eric Holder had met with him on 27 November 2012 to discuss “Operation Longevity”, a special interest of the Attorney General and the President of the United Staes for promoting gun control. Mark my words. The evidence presented here demonstrates that the school was closed by 2008; that there were no students to evacuate; that Adam Lanza appears to have been a work of fiction; and that the teachers, the parents, the Newtown School Board, the State Police, the Medical Examiner and the Governor were in on the hoax.

We have the FEMA manual Our collaborative research, you will find for yourself, is extensive, thorough and detailed—and leaves this matter resolved beyond any reasonable doubt. We have 50 photos that show the preparation of the Lanza home as a prop and another 50 documenting the refurbishing of the school as a stage (in Chapters 7 and 8). Doubt in this case would be reasonable were there a reasonable alternative explanation. But, as you are about to discover, there is none here.

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And I am not just talking about the sign, “Everyone must check in”, the  Port-a-Potties, the boxes of bottled water and pizza cartons at the Firehouse, the name tags on lanyards and parents bringing their children to (what was supposed to be) a child shooting massacre! WE HAVE THE FEMA MANUAL. It stipulates that everyone must register and that refreshments and restrooms will be provided. Some participants did not realize that the official event was not until the 14th: We now know why some of the donation pages went up a day early and why Adam Lanza was recorded as having died on the 13th! Don’t take my word for it, because you can read it for yourself. I included it here as Appendix A. 

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Hook by Danbury States Attorney Stephen Sedensky (to which we refer as “The Sedensky Report”), there were 489 children present that day. Minus 20 murdered, there ought to have been 469 to evacuate (as well as around 70 more teachers, administrators and staff). But we have no pictures of their evacuation. What we have instead this “iconic” photograph (above): It has sometimes been said that “You can’t prove a falsehood true!” But that assertion overlooks the role of false clams and fabricated evidence. We have here a photograph purporting to show a string of children being led away from the school to safety by a policewoman on the scene. This photo was published on the front page of virtually every newspaper in the world—and shown endless times on television. It was undoubtedly the single most important form of proof in convincing the public around the world that Sandy Hook was real. But there is a catch: the photograph was staged! And we know that not on the basis of the weaker evidence that there are too many leaves on the trees and no frost for this to be a 28 degree day in December but because Shannon Hicks took a second photograph!

Rearranging the kids to get a better shot   It’s bad enough that we have a series of parents looking on, some with their arms cross or their hands in their pockets—which is certainly not what we would expect in an emergency situation. It gets much worse when you realize that the police woman has stopped the children to rearrange them to get “a better shot”! Here’s a comparison that shows what was going on and demonstrates—as conclusively as anyone could have the right to expect— that the first photograph was staged to create the false impression that there

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was an emergency and that these kids needed to be removed from a threat at the earliest possible opportunity—which would not leave time to stop and rearrange them as follows:

We not only know that Shannon Hicks was “in on the game” by taking these photos (as early as in October) in preparation for this elaborate charade but we also know that there was no evacuation. The claim is sometimes made that “You can’t prove a negative!” But that turns out to be false. When evidence that ought to be present if an hypothesis were true is not present, then the absence of evidence qualifies as evidence of absence. Suppose you were told there is an elephant in your living room. If you go there and find no indications of the presence of an elephant, you are completely justified in inferring that there is no elephant in your living room. 

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An evacuation would have looked something like this, with strings of children led by other police officers or teachers performing their duty under stress. But we have DashCam footage at the locations in the parking lot where, according to official police records, the evacuation was taking place—and there is nothing there! Just as the absence of signs of the presence of an elephant in your living room is proof of the absence of an elephant, the absence of signs of the presence of children undergoing evacuation is proof that no evacuation was taking place. 

More parking lot anomalies—and a stunner!

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cars, driving straight into the designated parking places without regard for how they should have been arranged. Once again we ask, “What is the probability that the lot would be filled with cars parked in the wrong direction, if this had been a real event? What if this had been a drill?” Truly stunning, however, is the discovery of a series of photographs that display setting the stage early in the morning for the events that would transpire this day, including this one from Chapter 8:

Notice that the windows of Classroom 10 are not shot out and the flag is up. Wayne Carver can be seen behind the man in the blue evidence suit. This photograph is taken from one of the elevated cameras we have discovered that were mounted around the parking lot to record the drill. The mortuary tent is not there yet, which makes this early morning. Could we have more decisive proof? When an hypothesis has been confirmed by abundant evidence and no alternative explanation is reasonable, it has been established “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Hypothesis (h1), that Sandy Hook was real, has been falsified and (h2), that this was an elaborate hoax, has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.

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responded to the event. On Friday, 12 December 2014, for example, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Representative Elizabeth Esty (CT-5) announced a $775,914 grant from the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crimes and their families, firs responders and members of Newtown community in the wake of the shooting to “help fund continued mental health services and other support services”, which sounds like a lot for participating in a charade. Other pay-offs, bribes and hush-money—and under the circumstances, is there anything more appropriate to call it?—are documented in Chapter 5. When debate was taking place over the choice between refurbishing the old school or constructing a new one, The Newtown Bee published about the presence of asbestos, lead and PCBs in the building, which had no doubt factored in the earlier decision to abandon the school in 2008. Newtown received $50,000,000 to build a brand new K-4 elementary school. I surveyed the cost of comparable cost for K-4 schools across the nation and discovered they average $7,000,000, which reflects the generous benefits that a community might accrue from cooperating covertly with the federal government in the pursuit of its political agenda.  

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discover. Appendix D, for example, “Comparing Murder and Homicide Rates before and after Gun Bans”, suggests something closer to the opposite is the case, contrary to our president’s claims. Barack Obama himself praised the sweeping gun confiscation that took place in Australia in the late 1990s and said:

“Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown,” Obama said. “And Australia just said, well, that’s it, we’re not doing, we’re not seeing that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven’t had a mass shooting since.” And while they haven’t seen a mass shooting since, local officials say that gun violence on the continent is much worse than it was before the tougher gun policies went into effect. Meanwhile, the one thing that the President failed to recognize is that gun crime in the U.S. is on the decline. According to a PEW research study, gun crime is down 49% since 1993. Another study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that non-fatal gun crime is actually down 70% since the same time. Even the President’s own study performed by the Center for Disease Control reached a similar conclusion: “Firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009,” the report states. “The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearmrelated deaths.”

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What these studies show is there’s a clear agenda being carried out by the Mainstream Media to make it seem like mass shootings are the norm. As soon as a mass shooting happens, it reverberates through all the major news networks for weeks, much like an echo after the initial shot. Because of this, much of the nation seems to believe that gun violence, particularly school shootings, is on the rise even with evidence that points to the contrary. The reasons behind this aggressive behavior by the administration, even when gun violence has been falling in the United States, involves deep questions about the role of DHS in our society and why America has been devolving into a totalitarian state. I was born a year-and-a-day before Pearl Harbor, as my father used to put it; and I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams that the United States of American could descent into a bottomless pit of lies, deceit and deception. Faking a school shooting to instill fear into a population for political purposes is an act of terrorism, where it has become clear that this instance was brought to us by officials at every level of Connecticut government from the teachers and reporters to the State Police and the Newtown School board to the Governor and the Attorney General and the President himself. And this is the ugly legacy of Barack Hussein Obama. 

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Medical Examiner: More Questions than Answers by James F. Tracy, Ph.D. “[My staff] and I hope the people of Newtown don’t have it crash on their head later” –Connecticut Medical Examiner D. Wayne Carver II, MD, December 15, 2012 Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in its resolution suggest a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. The condition is reinforced through the corporate media’s unwillingness to push hard questions vis-à-vis Connecticut and federal authorities who together bottlenecked information while invoking prior restraint through threats of prosecutorial action against journalists and the broader citizenry seeking to interpret the event on social media. Along these lines on December 19 the Connecticut State Police assigned individual personnel to each of the 26 families who lost a loved one at Sandy Hook Elementary. “The families have requested no press interviews,” State Police assert on their behalf, “and we are asking that this request be honored. 19

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[1] The de facto gag order will be in effect until the investigation concludes— now forecast to be “several months away” even though lone gunman Adam Lanza has been confirmed as the sole culprit.[2] With the exception of an unusual and apparently contrived appearance by Emilie Parker’s alleged father, victims’ family members have been almost wholly absent from public scrutiny.[3] What can be gleaned from this and similar coverage raises many more questions and glaring inconsistencies than answers. While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place—at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation’s news media have described.

The accidental Medical Examiner An especially important yet greatly underreported feature of the Sandy Hook affair is the wholly bizarre performance of Connecticut’s top medical examiner H. Wayne Carver II at a December 15 press conference. Carver’s unusual remarks and behavior warrant close consideration because in light of his professional notoriety they appear remarkably amateurish and out of character. H. Wayne Carver II has an extremely self-assured, almost swaggering presence in Connecticut state administration. In early 2012 Carver threatened to vacate his position because of state budget cuts and streamlining measures that threatened his professional autonomy over the projects and personnel he oversaw. Along these lines the pathologist has gone to excessive lengths to demonstrate his findings and expert opinion in court proceedings. For example, in a famous criminal case Carver “put a euthanized pig through a wood chipper so jurors could match striations on the bone fragments with the few ounces of evidence that prosecutors said were on the remains of the victim.”[4] One would therefore expect Carver to be in his element while identifying and verifying the exact ways in which Sandy Hook’s children and teachers met their violent demise. Yet the H. Wayne Carver who showed up to the December 15 press conference is an almost entirely different man, appearing apprehensive and uncertain, as if he is at a significant remove from the postmortem operation he had overseen. The multiple gaffes, discrepancies, and hedges in response to reporters’ astute questions suggest that he is either under coercion or an imposter. While the latter sounds untenable it would go a long way in explaining his sub-pedestrian grasp of medical procedures and terminology.

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With this in mind extended excerpts from this exchange are worthy of recounting here in print.  Carver is accompanied by Connecticut State Police Lieutenant H. Paul Vance and additional Connecticut State Police personnel. The reporters are off-screen and thus unidentified so I have assigned them simple numerical identification based on what can be discerned of their voices. Reporter #1: So the rifle was the primary weapon? H. Wayne Carver: Yes. Reporter #1: [Inaudible] Carver: Uh (pause). Question was what caliber were these bullets. And I know—I probably know more about firearms than most pathologists but if I say it in court they yell at me and don’t make me answer [sic]—so [nervous laughter]. I’ll let the police do that for you. Reporter #2: Doctor can you tell us about the nature of the wounds. Were they at very close range? Were the children shot at from across the room? Carver: Uhm, I only did seven of the autopsies. The victims I had ranged from three to eleven wounds apiece and I only saw two of them with close range shooting. Uh, but that’s, uh y’know, a sample. Uh, I really don’t have detailed information on the rest of the injuries. [Given that Carver is Connecticut’s top coroner and in charge of the entire postmortem this is a startling admission.-JT] Reporter #3: But you said that the long rifle was used? Carver: Yes. Reporter #3: But the long rifle was discovered in the car. State Police Lieutenant Vance: That’s not correct, sir. Unidentified reporter #4: How many bullets or bullet fragments did you find in the autopsy. Can you tell us that? Carver: Oh. I’m lucky I can tell you how many I found. I don’t know. There were lots of them, OK? This type of weapon is not, uh … the bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy—this is very clinical. I shouldn’t be saying this. But the energy is deposited in the tissue so the bullet stays in [the tissue]. [In fact, the Bushmaster .223 Connecticut police finally claimed was used in the shooting is designed for long range field use and utilizes high velocity bullets averaging 3,000 feet-per-second, the energy of which even at considerable distance would penetrate several bodies before finally coming to rest in tissue.] Reporter #5: How close were the injuries? Carver: Uh, all the ones (pause). I believe say, yes [sic]. Reporter #6: In what shape were the bodies when the families were brought to check [inaudible]. Carver: Uh, we did not bring the bodies and the families into contact. We took pictures of them, uhm, of their facial features. We have, uh, uh—it’s easier on the families when you do that. Un, there is, uh, a time and place 21

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for the up close and personal in the grieving process, but to accomplish this we thought it would be best to do it this way and, uh, you can sort of, uh … You can control a situation depending on the photographer, and I have very good photographers. Uh, but uh— Reporter #7: Do you know the difference of the time of death between the mother in the house and the bodies recovered [in the school]. Carver: Uh, no, I don’t. Sorry [shakes head excitedly] I don’t! [embarrassed laugh] Reporter #8: Did the gunman kill himself with the rifle? Carver: No. I—I don’t know yet. I’ll-I’ll examine him tomorrow morning. But, but I don’t think so. [Why has Carver left arguably the most important specimen for last? And why doesn’t he think Lanza didn’t commit suicide with the rifle?] Reporter #9: In terms of the children, were they all found in one classroom or— Carver: Uhm … [inaudible] [Turns to Lieutenant Vance] Paul and company will deal with that. Reporter #9: What? Carver: Paul and company will deal with that. Lieutenant Vance is going to handle that one. Reporter #10: Was there any evidence of a struggle? Any bruises? Carver: No. Reporter #11: The nature of the shooting; is there any sense that there was a lot of care taken with precision [inaudible] or randomly? Carver: [Exhales while glancing upward, as if frustrated] Both. It’s a very difficult question to answer … You’d think after thousands of people I’ve seen shot but I … It’s … If I attempted to answer it in court there’d be an objection and then they’d win—[nervous laughter]. [Who would win? Why does an expert whose routine job as a public employee is to provide impartial medical opinion concerned with winning and losing in court? Further, Carver is not in court but rather at a press conference.] Reporter #12: Doctor, can you discuss the fatal injuries to the adults? Carver: Ah, they were similar to those of the children. Reporter #13: Doctor, the children you had autopsied, where in the bodies were they hit? Carver: Uhm [pause]. All over. All over. Reporter #14: Were [the students] sitting at their desks or were they running away when this happened? Carver: I’ll let the guys who—the scene guys talk—address that issue. I, uh, obviously I was at the scene. Obviously I’m very experienced in that. But there are people who are, uh, the number one professionals in that. I’ll let them—let that [voice trails off]. 22

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Reporter [#15]: How many boys and how many girls [were killed]? Carver: [Slowly shaking his head] I don’t know.

More unanswered questions and inconsistencies In addition to Carver’s remarks several additional chronological and evidentiary contradictions in the official version of the Sandy Hook shooting are cause for serious consideration and leave doubt in terms of how the event transpired vis-à-vis the way authorities and major media outlets have presented it. It is now well known that early on journalists reported that Adam Lanza’s brother Ryan Lanza was reported to be the gunman, and that pistols were used in the shooting rather than a rifle. Yet these are merely the tip of the iceberg.

When did the gunman arrive? After Adam Lanza fatally shot and killed his mother at his residence, he drove himself to the elementary school campus, arriving one half hour after classes had commenced. Dressed in black, Lanza proceeds completely unnoticed through an oddly vacant parking lot with a military style rifle and shoots his way through double glass doors and a brand new yet apparently poorly engineered security system. Further, initial press accounts suggest how no school personnel or students heard gunshots and no 911 calls are made until after Lanza begins firing  inside the facility. “It was a lovely day,” Sandy Hook fourth grade teacher Theodore Varga said. And then, suddenly and unfathomably, gunshots rang out. “I can’t even remember how many,” Varga said.[5] The recollection contrasts sharply with an updated version of Lanza’s arrival where at 9:30AM he walked up to the front entrance and fired at least a half dozen rounds into the glass doors. The thunderous sound of Lanza blowing an opening big enough to walk through the locked school door caused Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Scherlach to bolt from a nearby meeting room to investigate. He shot and killed them both as they ran toward him. 23

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Breaching the school’s security system in such a way would have likely triggered some automatic alert of school personnel. Further, why would the school’s administrators run toward an armed man who has just noisily blasted his way into the building? Two other staff members attending the meeting with Hochsprung and Scherlach sustained injuries “in the hail of bullets” but returned to the aforementioned meeting room and managed a call to 911.[6] This contrasted with earlier reports where the first 911 call claimed students “were trapped in a classroom with the adult shooter who had two guns.”[7] Recordings of the first police dispatch following the 911 call at 9:35:50 indicate that someone “thinks there’s someone shooting in the building.”[8] There is a clear distinction between potentially hearing shots somewhere in the building and being almost mortally caught in a “hail of bullets.”

How did the gunman fire so many shots in such little time? According to Dr. Carver and State Police, Lanza shot each victim between 3 and 11 times during a 5 to 7 minute span. If one is to average this out to 7 bullets per individual—excluding misses—Lanza shot 182 times, or once every two seconds. Yet according to the official story Lanza was the sole assassin and armed with only one weapon. Thus if misses and changing the gun’s 30-shot magazine at least 6 times are added to the equation Lanza must have been averaging about one shot per second—extremely skilled use of a single firearm for a young man with absolutely no military training and who was on the verge of being institutionalized.  Still, an accurate rendering of the event is even more difficult to arrive at because the chief medical examiner admittedly has no idea exactly how  the children were shot or whether a struggle ensued.

Where is the photo and video evidence? Photographic and video evidence is at once profuse yet lacking in terms of its capacity to demonstrate that a mass shooting took place on the scale described by authorities. For example, in an era of ubiquitous video surveillance of public buildings especially no visual evidence of Lanza’s violent entry has emerged. And while studio snapshots of the Sandy Hook victims abound there is little if any eyewitness testimony of anyone who’s observed the corpses except for Carver and his staff, and they appear almost as confused about the conditions of the deceased as any layperson watching televised coverage of the event. Nor are there any routine eyewitness, photo or video evidence of the crime scene’s aftermath—broken glass, blasted security locks and doors, bullet casings and holes, bloodied walls and floors—all of which are common in such investigations and reportage. 24

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Why were medical personnel turned away from the scene? Oddly enough medical personnel are forced to set up their operation not at the school where the dead and injured lay, but rather at the fire station several hundred feet away. This flies in the face of standard medical operating procedure where personnel are situated as close to the scene as possible. There is no doubt that the school had ample room to accommodate such personnel. Yet medical responders who rushed to Sandy Hook Elementary upon receiving word of the tragedy were denied entry to the school and forced to set up primary and secondary triages off school grounds and wait for the injured to be brought to them. Shortly after the shooting “as other ambulances from neighboring communities rolled up, sirens blaring, the first responders slowly realized that their training would be tragically underutilized on this horrible day. ‘You may not be able to save everybody, but you damn well try,’” 44 year old emergency medical technician James Wolff told NBC News. “’And when (we) didn’t have the opportunity to put our skills into action, it’s difficult.’”[9] In light of this, who were the qualified medical practitioners that pronounced the 20 children and 7 adults dead? Who decided that none could be revived? Carver and his staff are apparently the only medical personnel to have attended to the victims—yet this was in the postmortem conducted several hours later. Such slipshod handling of the crime scene leaves the State of Connecticut open to a potential array of hefty civil claims by families of the slain.

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their parents at the oft-referenced fire station nearby where students were routed for parent pick up.

Sound bite prism and the will to believe Outside of a handful of citizen journalists and alternative media commentators Sandy Hook’s dramatically shifting factual and circumstantial terrain has escaped serious critique because it is presented through major media’s carefully constructed prism of select sound bites alongside a widespread and longstanding cultural impulse to accept the pronouncements of experts, be they bemused physicians, high ranking law enforcement officers, or political leaders demonstrating emotionally-grounded concern. Political scientist W. Lance Bennett calls this the news media’s “authoritydisorder bias.” “Whether the world is returned to a safe, normal place,” Bennett writes, “or whether the very idea of a normal world is called into question, the news is preoccupied with order, along with related questions of whether authorities are capable of establishing or restoring it.”[12] Despite Carver’s bizarre performance and law enforcement authorities’ inability to settle on and relay simple facts, media management’s impulse to assure audiences and readerships of the Newtown community’s inevitable adjustment to its trauma and loss with the aid of the government’s protective oversight—however incompetent that may be—far surpasses a willingness to undermine this now almost universal news media narrative with messy questions and suggestions of intrigue. This well-worn script is one the public has been conditioned to accept. If few people relied on such media to develop their world view this would hardly be a concern. Yet this is regrettably not the case. The Sandy Hook tragedy was on a far larger scale than the past year’s numerous slaughters, including the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting and the Batman theater shooting in Colorado. It also included glaringly illogical exercises and pronouncements by authorities alongside remarkably unusual evidentiary fissures indistinguishable by an American political imagination cultivated to believe that the corporate, government and military’s sophisticated system of organized crime is largely confined to Hollywoodstyle storylines while really existing malfeasance and crises are without exception returned to normalcy. If recent history is a prelude the likelihood of citizens collectively assessing and questioning Sandy Hook is limited even given the event’s overtly superficial trappings.  While the incident is ostensibly being handled by Connecticut law enforcement, early reports indicate how federal authorities 26

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were on the scene as the 911 call was received. Regardless of where one stands on the Second Amendment and gun control, it is not unreasonable to suggest the Obama administration’s complicity or direct oversight of an incident that has in very short order sparked a national debate on the very topic—and not coincidentally remains a key piece of Obama’s political platform. The move to railroad this program through with the aid of major media and an irrefutable barrage of children’s portraits, “heartfelt” platitudes and ostensible tears neutralizes a quest for genuine evidence, reasoned observation and in the case of Newtown honest and responsible law enforcement. Moreover, to suggest that Obama is not capable of deploying such techniques to achieve political ends is to similarly place ones faith in image and interpretation above substance and established fact, the exact inclination that in sum has brought America to such an impasse.

Notes [1] State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, ”State Police Investigate Newtown School Shooting” [Press Release] December 15, 2012. [2] State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, “Update: Newtown School Shooting” [Press Release], December 19, 2012. [3] CNN, “Family of 6 Year Old Victim,” December 14, 2012, “Sandy Hook School Shooting Hoax Fraud,” Youtube, December 17, 2012. [4]  Hartford Courant, “Finally ‘Enough’ For Chief Medical Examiner” [Editorial], January 30, 2012. [5] John Christofferson and Jocelyn Noveck, “Sandy Hook School Shooting: Adam Lanza Kills 26 and Himself at Connecticut School,” Huffington Post, December 15, 2012. [6] Edmund H. Mahoney, Dave Altmari, and Jon Lender, “Sandy Hook Shooter’s Pause May Have Aided Escape,” Hartford Courant, December 23, 2012. [7] Jaweed Kaleem, “Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Newtown Connecticut Students, Administrators Among Victims, Reports Say,” Huffington Post, December 14, 2012. [8] RadioMan911TV, “Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Newtown Police / Fire and CT State Police,” Youtube, December 14, 2012. At several points in this recording audio is scrambled, particularly following apprehension of a second shooting suspect outside the school, suggesting a purposeful attempt to withhold vital information. 27

James F. Tracy [9] Miranda Leitsinger, “You Feel Helpless: First Responders Rushed to School After Shooting, Only to Wait,” US News on NBC, December 20. [10] http://thenetng.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Sandy-Hook-ElementarySchool-600×400.jpg. 12/25/12 Note that this photo of approximately fifteen children allegedly being evacuated from Sandy Hook Elementary was reportedly produced on December 14. See Connor Simpson, Alexander Abad-Santos et al, “Newtown School Shooting: Live Updates,” The Atlantic Wire, December 19, 2012. Still, the paltry number of children confirms the claim that little photographic evidence exists of Sandy Hook’s 600 students being moved from the facility on December 14. This photo was  from a Tweet of a Sandy Hook drill published by the school’s slain principal Dawn Hochsprung titled, “Safety First.” See Julia La Rouche, “Principal Killed in Sandy Hook Tweeted Picture of Students Practicing an Evacuation Drill,” Business Insider, December 16, 2012. [Editor’s note: See the Prologue and Ch. 6, among others.] [11] Rob Dew, “Evidence of 2nd and 3rd Shooter at Sandy Hook,” Infowars Nightly News, December 18, 2012,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nCFHImNeRw. A more detailed yet less polished analysis was developed by citizen journalist Idahopicker, “Sandy Hook Elem: 3 Shooters,” December 16, 2012. See also James F. Tracy, “Analyzing the Newtown Narrative: Sandy Hook’s Disappearing Shooter Suspects,” Memoryholeblog.com, December 20, 2012. [12] W. Lance Bennett, News: The Politics of Illusion 9th Edition, Boston: Longman, 2012, 47. NOTE: Andrew Whooley provided suggestions and research for this article, which originally appeared as “The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information” (24 December 2012), on memoryholeblog.com. 

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Six Signs Sandy Hook Elementary School was Closed by Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D. The alternative media have blogged and made countless YouTube videos on what Wolfgang Halbig calls “things that don’t make sense” about the Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) shooting massacre of 20 first-graders and 6 adults on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. Some of those “things that don’t make sense” are emergency medical helicopters not being called to the scene, parents showing no grief, donation websites with creation dates that preceded the massacre, government’s continuing refusal to release the death certificates and burial sites of the alleged victims, and homes with a sale transaction date of 12/25/2009 and a $0 sale price. Recently, I undertook a review of the “things that don’t makes sense,” which led me to conclude that the crux — the decisive and most important issue — of whether the massacre actually happened is this:

Was Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) operational on December 14, 2012, or had it long been abandoned? If the school already was closed, no children or teachers would be there on December 14 to be gunned down by Adam Lanza. Here’s the evidence supporting the contention that SHES had long been abandoned:

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1. What school’s neighbors said In an interview with Halbig on Truth Radio Show on March 21, 2014, Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said (5:45 mark), “The school’s been closed down for God knows how long. [Neighbors] can’t understand why there were kids in that building because it was condemned.”

2. Reports of shes being contaminated with asbestos. requiring expensive repairs SHES was built in 1956. Several reports in local newspaper The Newtown Bee indicate that years before the massacre, SHES was in a state of disrepair and contaminated with environmental toxins. As examples, in 2002, Consulting Engineering Services recommended to the school district that SHES be “worked on in 2010 over a nine-month period” to upgrade and renovate its heating and ventilation system at a cost of $4.5 million.Two years later, in 2004, the Newtown Board of Education was told “there were serious problems with the Sandy Hook elementary school roof.” Four years later, in 2008, there was yet more bad news: SHES was contaminated with asbestos. (Remember that 2008 date.) On October 5, 2013, nearly 10 months after the massacre, a city referendum passed by over 90% in support of the demolition and rebuilding of SHES with a generous $49.25 million grant from the State of Connecticut. The reason given for the demolition was “asbestos abatement”. On Dec 2, 2013, Newtown’s Public Building and Site Commission Chairman Robert Mitchell issued a report to justify the already-approved demolition.

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He said that “had the town decided to reoccupy the school on Dickinson Drive, it would have faced a daunting and possibly insurmountable challenge regarding the presence of hazardous materials” because the school was contaminated by not just asbestos, but also PCBs under the flooring and in the foundations and footings. Just think: If the city already knew in 2008 that the school was contaminated with asbestos and, in 2013, used the contamination to justify tearing it down, why would the same asbestos-contaminated school be safe for children and teachers to inhabit from 2008 through 2012? If SHES had remained open, wouldn’t the school district be sued for endangering public health? It makes more sense that the school was shut down in 2008 and remained closed, until the massacre provided Newtown with the financial means — a windfall of $50 million from the state — to tear down the school and build a swanky, state-of-the-art replacement.

3. Photographic evidence of an abandoned school Crime scene photos of the exterior and interior of SHES — from the website of the State of Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, and from a batch of photos that Halbig obtained via Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), some of which are posted on Jim Fetzer’s blog — are consistent with the appearance of an abandoned school.

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Moss and grime covered the school building; repairs were left undone. Especially noteworthy, as pointed out by Jim Fetzer, is a dangerous, exposed metal rod on an exterior staircase (see #3 in photo below): Classrooms and hallways were used for storage, jammed with furniture and office supplies. If those rooms and hallways were actually in an operational school, then SHES was in clear violation of the fire safety code. Then there is this photo of a pile of dust underneath an alleged bullet hole in a wall outside Room 1C, which looks suspiciously like the debris from someone drilling a pretend “bullet” hole into the ceramic wall-tile. I’ve painted red circles around the “bullet” hole and the little pile of drilled dust underneath.

4. Absence of handicapped parking spaces and signage But we don’t need crime scene photos for visual indicators of a long abandoned school. The many aerial photographic and video images of Sandy Hook Elementary School’s parking lot taken by news media on the day of the massacre would suffice, such as the one from a CNN news video. Although the CNN image on the next page shows a wheelchair symbol painted on a parking space closest to the school’s front door, it is not painted 32

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in the now-familiar blue and white colors that have become ubiquitous certainly by 2012. As an example, an August 22, 2011 article by Debbie Moore for My Parking Sign stated: Americans with Disabilities Act signed in 1990 … details guidelines for every public area that needs to provide with ample accessibility options for the disabled…. ADA states the following rules that need to be followed while posting accessibility signs in designated areas – The international symbol of accessibility should be posted on all accessible parking spaces marking the reserved spot. The accessibility symbol is the well-known picture of a person using a wheelchair on top of a blue background. Van-accessible parking spaces to have additional ‘text’ or ‘sign’ below the accessibility symbol to mark the van-accessible area specifically. Signs should be placed at such a height (at least 60 inches above surface) that they do not get obscured by any parked vehicles or other obstructions. ADA handicap parking signs (commonly known as Access Signs) posted must be viewable from the drivers’ seat of the vehicle and located right in view of parking spaces.” But aerial images of SHES’s parking lot, including the CNN image, show no blue-and-white signage for designated handicap parking spaces, which would make the school in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the subsequent  ADA Amendments Act of 2008 that broadened the meaning of disabilities. 33

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Indeed, Connecticut General Statutes, Sec. 14-253a(h), clearly states that “Parking spaces designated for persons who are blind and persons with disabilities on or after October 1, 1979, and prior to October 1, 2004, shall be as near as possible to a building entrance or walkway and shall be fifteen feet wide including three feet of cross hatch, or parallel to a sidewalk on a public highway.” Referring to that Connecticut state law, a 2009 ordinance of the town of Monroe, CT,about 9 miles from Newtown, specified that “Exterior accessible parking spaces [for the handicapped] shall be located on the shortest route . . . and identified by both a standing sign and painted on the pavement.” But aerial views of SHES’s parking lot show no handicap standing signs or the distinctive blue-and-white handicap sign colors.

5. Absence of internet activity 2008-2012 Arguably, the most compelling evidence that SHES had long been abandoned before the 2012 massacre is the testimony from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine of the school’s lack of of Internet activity from the beginning of 2008 through all of 2012. The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the Internet which uses a special software to crawl and download all publicly accessible World Wide Web pages. It was Jungle Server who first discovered that the Wayback Machine shows an absence of Internet activity from SHES since 2008 — the same year when the school was found to be contaminated with asbestos. To verify Jungle Surfer’s claim, I searched for SHES’s website,http:// newtown.k12.ct.us/~sh, on the Wayback Machine, the result of which is below,

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showing the school’s lack of Internet activity from the beginning of 2008 to mid-2013. By mid-2013, we are told SHES temporarily had relocated to the nearby town of Monroe, about 9 miles from Newtown.

6. Halbig’s FOI hearing On April 24, 2015, more than two years after Halbig first asked questions about Sandy Hook by phoning and writing letters to Connecticut officials invoking the FOIA, the state finally granted him the first of two hearings before the State of Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission. The respondents were the Newtown Police Department, First Selectman Patricia Llodra, the Town of Newtown, and Newtown’s Board of Education. They were represented by attorney Monte Frank, a gun-control activist who founded Team 26, a cycling group that lobbies for gun control. The purpose of the hearing was to determine if Newtown improperly withheld documents requested by Halbig. Halbig claims that he had requested the following documents from the respondents, but was denied — the denial being a violation of FOIA: SHES maintenance work orders, including: 1. Copies of all maintenance work orders submitted by SHES principal Dawn Hochsprung (one of Lanza’s alleged victims who, strangely, was interviewed by The Bee about the massacre) or her designee to the school district maintenance department for any repairs, new classroom doors or painting from July 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012. 2. Copies signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the date of completion of the repairs together with time stamps showing job completion. 2. Copies of all emails to and from Hochsprung and her assistant to various school district departments, e.g., food services provider, from May 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012. The requested documents presumably could prove that the school was operational on the day of the massacre. In a post on April 25, 2015, an anonymous contributor to SandyHookFacts. com, a blog that claims to debunk Sandy Hook “conspiracy theorists,” triumphantly crowed that the FOI hearing was a “total failure” for Halbig because attorney Frank said time-stamped SHES maintenance work orders 35

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signed by Hochsprung or her designee had been made available to Halbig six months before the hearing. SandyHookFacts.com is much too hasty and mistaken in its crowing, for in a memo on June 25, 2015, titled “Transmittal of Proposed Final Decision,” the State of Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) states the following: “it is found that the respondents, through counsel, informed the complainant [Halbig] that the respondents maintained 45 records responsive to the complainant’s request described in paragraph 2(a)(i), above, and that they would be provided upon payment of the copying fee. […] It is found that the respondents’ counsel also informed the complainant that his request described in paragraph 2(a)(i), above, was vague, overly broad, and that it was not a request for ‘specific documents and would require research and analysis not required under the FOI Act.‘” Most importantly, the FOIC states: “It is found that . . . the respondents, through counsel, also informed the complainant that the town had no records responsive to the request described in paragraph 2(a)(ii), above.” Note that paragraph 2(a)(i) in the FOIC memo is 1A in this post (see above), i.e., copies of all maintenance work orders submitted by SHES principal Dawn Hochsprung or her designee to the school district maintenance department for any repairs, new classroom doors or painting from July 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012. Note that paragraph 2(a)(ii) in the FOIC memo is 1B in this post, i.e., copies signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the date of completion of the repairs together with time stamps showing job completion. By saying that “the town had no records responsive to the request described in paragraph 2(a)(ii),” the FOIC means the town of Newtown does not have documents signed by Hochsprung or her designee showing the date of completion of the repairs [to SHES] together with time stamps showing job completion. Furthermore, the FOIC memo also states: “It is found that the respondents’ counsel also informed the complainant 36

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that his request described in paragraph 2(b)(i), above, was vague, overly broad, and that it . . . ‘would require research and analysis not required under the FOI Act.’” Note that FOIC’s paragraph 2(b)(i) is document 2 in this post, i.e., copies of all emails to and from Hochsprung and her assistant to various school district departments, e.g., food services provider, from May 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012. In other words, Newtown cannot produce evidence that in the months preceding the massacre from May 1, 2012 through December 13, 2012, repairs were made on Sandy Hook Elementary School or that Hochsprung had exchanged emails with school district departments. The reason is a simple one: the school was not operational, having been closed down for years, most probably since 2008 when it was discovered to be contaminated with asbestos. This chapter originally appeared as “Sandy Hook Hoax: 6 Signs that School was Closed before Massacre” (9 September 2015), fellowshipoftheminds.com.

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Wolfgang Halbig goes for the Jugular in his FOIA Hearing by Jim Fetzer , Ph.D. Wolfgang Halbig, a former Florida State Trooper, school principal and nationally recognized school safety expert, may be the leading researcher into the Sandy Hook affair. After filing complaint upon complaint about the failure of responses to his FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, he was granted ahearing, which was initially scheduled for March 31, 2015. Wolfgang waited, but the time came and went. It was rebooked for April 24th and has taken place. Here is an exclusive interview withWolfgang by MBC (Media Broadcasting Center), where a video recording of the hearing and a panel discussion of what had transpired during the hearing with many serious students of Sandy Hook follows (search by title on YouTube):  For those who are less familiar with the background of the Sandy Hook hoax, here is a summary of key aspects, which include ample proof that the school had been closed by 2008, which included that it was not compliant with Connecticut laws implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act, where there is a complete absence of the familiar white-and-blue parking areas and corresponding signage, where the exterior of the building is in deplorable condition and the inside was being used for storage (search by title on YouTube):  Among our most important discoveries has been the FEMA manual for the Sandy Hook event (Appendix A), which specifies that a rehearsal will be 39

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conducted on December 13, 2012, with the event going “LIVE” on the 14th, which explains why Wolf has been unable to obtain information about the Port-A-Potties, which on its face seems very obscure, but where releasing the documents he has requested would reveal that they were delivered on the 13th, which blows the cover for the whole event. Bear in mind that, while we already know that it was a scam, Wolf is proceeding to establish that point as a matter of law.

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One of Wolf’s successes has been to gain access to dozens and dozens of photographs taken of the school the day after the alleged shooting. MBC has included them with its broadcast, where I am offering a sample of what they tell us about the condition of the school, both inside and out. These photographs provide further substantiation of my inference that the school had been closed by 2008, which I published (with Amanda) in “Sandy Hook Elementary School: Closed in 2008, a stage in 2012”. The building is covered with moss and grime, with many indications of repairs left undone:

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The interior shots provide even more damning proof that the school had long-since been abandoned, with loose electrical chords dangling, unkempt offices and rooms, with materials stored everywhere. Anyone who reviews these photos should have a more profound appreciation for the points that I made in  “Sandy Hook: Ten More Proofs that Vitiate the ‘Official Account’” and in “Sandy Hook Elementary School: Closed in 2008, a stage in 2012”, at least one of which remains accessible on YouTube today:

The FOIA Hearing (April 24, 2015) Kelley Watt has summarized the event as follows:  On Friday, April 24, 2015, Wolfgang had his long overdue and awaited hearing before the Freedom of Information Commission. The Commissioner is a Governor Malloy appointee. The discussion dealt with the consent agenda regarding the Super Bowl permission by Dawn Hochsprung (“the hoax was sprung in the dawn”), documents for which Wolf had requested. Monte Frank, an attorney, was present representing the School Board, the Newtown Police and the Town of Newtown. Frank claimed Wolf had the documents he needed and had requested but Wolf stood firm and stated he wanted permission slips of children to sing, authorization from Dawn and the school board approving the field trip and those documents he did not receive. Wolf also took issue with documents 41

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regarding Chatfield’s regarding the Porta-A-Potties and who called for them; he wanted but did not receive the documents from the school board or the school.  The school would have to have been the party ordering them, since they are on their property. Wolf then brought up the fact that there were no documents pertaining to communications between Connecticut Trooper One and the Newtown police. Chief Kehoe of the Newtown Police Department has claimed there were no communication logs, yet it was the Newtown police who asked for Trooper One helicopter to help search for a shooter or multiple shooters in the woods behind the school. (Search YouTube by title.) Then it was the man in charge of maintenance for Sandy Hook schools who garnered laughter from the crowd when he stated he had read the work orders but didn’t know if they existed. The FOIA requests that Wolf received had two unsigned signature lines at the bottom stating that the work had been done and signed off on by a supervisor; however, this man stated that they were not signed and that they just signed off verbally.  When asked when the new security system was installed, he stated it was last updated in 2007! This was new information to all researchers and when Wolf was asked why he thought there was a new system, Wolf said every news outlet in America reported that the school had a new system and that the school principal, Mrs. Hochsprung, had sent out letters to parents describing the new security upgrades.  Monte said it was “hearsay” and he objected to it being in the record based on hearsay. The question also arose during the hearing why, after the first 911 calls were made, the police records indicate the incident was “moderate” rather than an emergency, where the unknown person in the vicinity was said to be “unwanted”. Most of the meeting consisted of Monte Frank objecting to things, asking that things not be put in the record, and contending that most of the items Wolf was pursuing were irrelevant.

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away but they went to the Governor’s office and Wolf made a request of his aide, “Can you ask Malloy who spoke to him during the press conference he referenced that, ‘The Lt. Governor and I have been spoken to that something like this may be played out in our state’?” And you can watch and hear the Governor make precisely that remark in this video (search YouTube by title): ​ Much to Wolf’s amazement, the Lt. Governor and Malloy walked right by Wolf, so Wolf said, “Hello, I am Wolfgang Halbig. Can I ask you a question?” Malloy said “Sure.” So Wolf asked who had spoken to him in advance apprising him that something like this might happen in your state. Governor Malloy’s response was “I never said that!”, which was rather astonishing, since the Governor’s press conference the day of the event was recorded and widely publicized at the time. Wolf now has his denial on film! (Search YouTube by title.) Governor Malloy blundered here, no doubt because he did not want to admit that the person who had warned him “something like this might happen” appears to have been Attorney General Eric Holder, who visited with the governor on November 27, 2012, which was only a few weeks before the event at Sandy Hook would go down. Yet the governor made no effort to warn Connecticut school districts to enhance their security due to an imminent threat. I surmise he was in fact told they were going to take an abandoned school and conduct a drill and present it as real to promote the administration’s anti-gun agenda.

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great job considering she believed at first this really happened. I wonder what she thinks now! Thus concludes Kelley Watts summary of the initial hearing. But many of Wolf’s supporters joined him in a round-table discussion of what he had accomplished thus far: ​  While many other photos and videos of the deplorable condition of Sandy Hook Elementary School may be found in “Sandy Hook Elementary School: Closed by 2008, a stage in 2012”, I would like to offer a few examples of the photos that are now in the public domain, which illustrate the key point--reinforced by the report that the school’s security system had most recently been updated in 2007!--by examples of the deplorable state of the school inside and out, where it was clearly being used for storage and was not operating at the time, one of which I have taken from that article for inclusion here:

Exhibit (1): Absence of compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act:

Exhibit (2): Presence electrical hazards for teachers, staff and students alike:

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Exhibit (3): Absence of wheelchair accessibility and of proper maintenance:

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attention, classrooms filled with boxes and miscellaneous stuff, which have now been released because of Wolfgang’s heroic actions. I have no doubt that his approach is going to drive legal nails into the coffin of the Sandy Hook hoax, where I encourage everyone to visit his site and contribute to his cause. He is a good and decent man, whom I personally support 100%. This chapter originally appeared as “SANDY HOOK: Wolfgang Halbig goes for the jugular in FOIA Hearings” (8 May 2015), on jamesfetzer.blogspot. com. 

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Shannon Hicks denies staging her fake “iconic” photograph by Jim Fetzer, Ph.D. & Dennis Cimino “I am not in that photo. I took that photo. And I took it while covering the evacuation of SHES on Friday, December 14, 2012”–Shannon Hicks The photograph to which Shannon Hicks, Associate Editor of The Newtown Bee, refers is one that I (with Dan Cady) published in “The Sandy Hook ‘Smoking Gun’: Game, Set, Match!”, which seems to be one in a series of staged photographs. Among the features that suggest they were staged is that, in the one to which she refers, a little girl is at the front of What became of her? the conga line of students led by a police woman in uniform. But she is missing in Shannon’s “iconic” photograph. If this was taken in real time under emergency conditions, how could she have taken more than one? And, as we explain below, the white arrow is not in the same position in the two photos, which suggests the second was taken later. And there is no sense of urgency about any of this. You have bystanders– whom Shannon Hicks claims were parents picking up their children–but does anyone buy that? And there should have been around 469 students and 83 faculty and staff to evacuate: Where are they?

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The “Smoking Gun”  Perhaps the most extraordinary proof that the Sandy Hook “shooting” was a fabricated event in which no children died is the “iconic” photograph that was taken by Shannon Hicks, Associate Editor of The Newtown Bee, which Dennis Cimino and I have subjected to an extensive and detailed analysis. It is the only photo we have of any children being evacuated from the school:

Hicks claims to have taken this on 14 December 2012 during the evacuation of children from Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES). Rather to our astonishment, Dan Cady,“The Sun and Sandy Hook”, had published another photograph on 14 January 2013, more than a year-and-a-half prior to the efforts of Dennis Cimino and me to establish when her photograph was actually taken. Notice the absence of any frost on the ground or exhaust from their breathing, which will become important. On the basis of a shadow analysis, Dan concluded that the Shannon Hicks’ photograph was taken at 9:45 AM on 12 November 2012, over a month before Sandy Hook. But shadow 48

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analysis turns out to be surprisingly complex and, given the distribution of the vehicles in the photo and such, it would not surprise me if it had been taken in much closer proximity to the event. It is less important when the photograph was taken than that we now have a second photo at approximately the same time. Notice how many indications are present that this photo wasstaged. There was no emergency in progress, the people behind the woman in the center (closest to the children, whom Dan Cady has identified as Lisa Terifay) appear part of a drill by their body language, where the conga line sequence in the first photo is missing the girl in the front, meaning Hicks’ claim that she took that photo under emergency conditions is indefensible: they staged multiple shots and selected the one that they thought was best. Dan Cady has conjectured that Shannon Hicks is taking the picture of the conga line and the parents. It is his guess that Lisa Terifay (near center, blue sweatshirt, clear line of sight to the kids, in front of Shannon) took the photo that got the most attention. A relative of mine with a keen eye, however, has observed, on the basis of the location of the (driving direction) white arrow, that the “iconic” photo was taken later and from a different position, reinforcing that the photo was staged. And facebook commentator, Lisa Spears, has noticed that the cars there on 14 December 2012 don’t look the same as in Hicks’ photograph.

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she is therefore not in the photograph itself, implying that Dan Cady’s conjecture was wrong: William was not satisfied and wrote back his strongly expressed dissatisfaction that what she was telling him was true. The key point here, I think, is not whether Shannon Hicks was in the second of these photographs that has now emerged but whether the first–the “iconic” photograph–was of a real event (a bona fide shooting in which 20 children died) or was instead staged (during a drill): Dennis and I believe that his photograph not only proves the “iconic” Shannon Hicks’ photograph was staged but that the entire episode–the alleged shooting at the school–about which so many have published so much– was indeed an elaborately fabricated event in which no children died (as Paul Preston has reported has even been confirmed by officials in the Department of Education) to promote Barack Obama’s anti-gun agenda.

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photograph, then when was it taken? She appears to be compounding the fraud by reaffirming that she took it “during the evacuation” of students at SHES. But we and others have noted before the absence of evidence that any evacuation took place, including that those 469 students are nowhere to be seen.

As C.W. Wade and others who are attempting to defend the indefensible have observed, Shannon Hicks claims to have taken hundreds of photos at Sandy Hook, including of the evacuation. There are not “hundreds” but 21–and no “evacuation” photos beyond those we have already seen.  There are some photos of kids walking along Dickinston Drive (who are not K-4th graders) and others beside a car, but those are not “evacuation photos”. This must be “the new math”–and confirms there was no “evacuation” because it was a drill, not a shooting.

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can also be seen from this photo on that day with frost on the ground and exhaust from the cold: We have no frost on the ground or visible exhalation from the cold in the Shannon Hicks’ photograph, which makes the date of 14 December 2012 no longer even remotely plausible. We should be able to narrow it down between 12 November 2012 and 17 October 2012, where we are inclined to believe that it was taken during the earlier drill as Dan Hennen reported. But it cannot be an authentic photograph taken on 14 December 2012. And other photos afford more evidence that this was a drill:

What is this officer doing running away from the scene of the crime, for example? He ought to be assisting in dealing with the threat from the alleged shooter. If there was one, there might have been more. And notice the officer whose silhouette can be seen in the background in front of the school. He appears more concerned with what’s going on in the parking lot than with what’s going on inside the school. And for good reason: there was nothing going on inside the school! Shannon Hick’s “iconic” photograph was thus an essential element of (what can only be described as) an act of terrorism. The events reported 52

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to have occurred at SHES on 14 December 2012 instilled fear into the hearts and minds of every American–parents and children alike–in order to make the people more amenable to manipulation to promote a political agenda. It was despicable conduct and a grotesque form of treason for which Barack Obama and Eric Holder bear ultimate responsibility. This chapter originally appeared as “Shannon Hicks denies staging her fake ‘iconic’ photograph” (24 July 2014), in veteranstoday.com.

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Top Ten Reasons: Sandy Hook was an Elaborate Hoax by Vivian Lee, Ph.D. “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” –Sherlock Holmes (“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”)

Figure 1. Gene Rosen Fox News live interview of December 18, 2012, now known to have been filmed in front of a green screen, with the “everyone must check in” 1 sign inserted in the background.

This article was first published in January 2014 at Veterans Today, a little over one year after the alleged Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of 2 December 14, 2012. Much research on Sandy Hook has been done since the time of its publication, but the original “top ten reasons” that discredit the official story are still as valid as ever. They form the basis for all further 57

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research and, as such, are offered here in a revised and updated version. Means of accessing the videos from the online article are given in the notes. As the article was being written, The New York Times, our nation’s newspaper of record, published a story on Connecticut’s “final report” on 3 the Newtown shooting (December 27, 2013). In this article we are told that although the report contained “hundreds of photographs, hours of video, and voluminous crime scene reports… care was taken to conceal the most graphic crime scene images.” Not only that—the final report does not even include the names, ages, or sex of the alleged shooting victims (Figure 2). 4 There was no actual identification of any of the dead. Even the News–Times 5 of Danbury, CT, found it unsatisfying.

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The New York Times was not worried, however, proceeding once again to retail the official story, seemingly satisfied that in place of the redacted pages are “detailed descriptions,” “eyewitness accounts,” and “snapshots” of emergency workers dashing around and supposedly interacting with the 6 school’s teachers. According to The Times, the report “did not appear to alter the broader understanding of the shooting”—the official version, that is, which the paper has promoted relentlessly despite massive evidence to the contrary. In this gross dereliction of duty, The Times has displayed not only its journalistic incompetence but, more grievously, its complicity in the perpetration of the Sandy Hook hoax. This pattern of deceit extended to the Newtown Clerk’s secret arrangements with the state legislature to avoid releasing death certificates to the public, attempts to withhold the 911 calls, and gag orders that were imposed on those responsible for tearing down the school building itself. In a letter accompanying the report, Reuben F. Bradford, the Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, stated that “the names and contextually identifying information of involved children” were removed, including descriptions and images of the children, their clothing, and their belongings. “All visual images depicting the deceased have been withheld,” he added, “as well as written descriptions whose disclosure would be highly offensive to a reasonable person and would violate 7 the constitutional rights of the families.” According to Bradford, the investigation was “unparalleled in the one hundred and ten year history of the Connecticut State Police. Tens of thousands of hours were spent by investigators from all over the country tracking down leads, processing evidence, and doing everything within their collective ability to provide answers for the questions that remained in the wake of the terror that morning.” With the issuing of the “final report,” the investigation “has been closed for administrative purposes.” However, this so-called investigation did nothing to reveal the truth of the matter but rather was part of the conspiracy to conceal the reality of the event from the public. 8 The basic principle that applies here is inference to the best explanation. Consider the totality of the evidence in this case. Is the evidence more probable on the hypothesis that Sandy Hook was a real event or that it was instead an exercise (a “drill”), which was presented as though it was a real shooting? The hypothesis that confers the highest degree of probability based on the evidence is preferable. Despite the exhaustive investigation allegedly carried out by the Connecticut State Police, the official scenario is not feasible in terms of the evidence. Here are the “top ten” reasons that support the conclusion that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and not real, where no children or adults appear to have died. 59

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1. Proof of death has been suppressed Twenty-eight people allegedly died: 27 children and adults, including Adam Lanza, at the school, and his mother, Nancy Lanza, in her home at 36 Yogananda Street, Newtown. However, there is no direct proof of anyone’s death: no photographic evidence or video footage was released to confirm the official story that these 28 persons actually died. In fact, no video surveillance footage shows anything—not even Adam shooting out the front plate-glass window or walking through the halls like Rambo, even though the school had supposedly updated its security system at the start of the 2012–2013 9 academic year.

Figure 3. Sandy Hook Elementary, alleged bullet hole (2013 final report, Walkley scene photos).

The best the authorities could come up with was a heavily redacted “final report” (December 2013) that includes numerous photos of the inside of the school, with a few dings identified as bullet holes, several bullets and casings on the floor, and hundreds of black (redacted) images with white numbers, which we are supposed to associate with dead people (Figures 3–4).

Figure 4. Sandy Hook Elementary, redacted image (2013 final report, Meehan autopsy photos)

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Compounding the situation, the parents were not allowed to view their children’s bodies to identify them. Instead, they were reportedly shown photographs of the deceased. This was done, according to the Medical Examiner, Wayne Carver, in order to “control” the situation. But what was there about the situation that required “control”? No normal parent would have agreed to accept the death of a child without viewing the body. James Tracy has published a discussion of the medical examiner’s performance 10 (Figure 5). According to Carver: Uh, we did not bring the bodies and the families into contact. We took pictures of them, uhm, of their facial features. We have, uh, uh—it’s easier on the families when you do that. Uh, there is, uh, a time and place for the up close and personal in the grieving process, but to accomplish this we felt it would be best to do it this way and, uh, you can sort of, uh … You can control a situation depending on the photographer, and I have 11 very good photographers. Uh, but uh—

Figure 5. Medical Examiner Wayne Carver’s press conference of December 15, 2012

Remarkably, the state has done its best to avoid releasing the death certificates and even recordings of the 911 calls. Death certificates were eventually “released” but not to the public or those who might want to 12 investigate the case further; only a short, general summary was available. On June 5, 2013, Connecticut passed legislation (Public Act 13–311) blocking disclosure of photos or video images of (all) homicide victims, along with 13 other records. According to Gov. Dannel Malloy, who signed the bill hours 14 after it was passed, “all families have a right to grieve in private.” The final version did not cover the 911 recordings, which were ordered released in late 2013, after Judge Eliot Prescott ascertained that “no children are identified by name, no callers indicate that they can see a child being shot, and the only 15 injury described is that of an educator’s being shot in the foot.” Moreover, the victims’ funerals were all “closed casket,” although the funeral of Noah Pozner supposedly included a private viewing before 61

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the public ceremony. As recounted in interviews with the families, the circumstances of their last encounters with their children (or with their caskets) are strange to say the least. The “love fest” at the white coffin of 16 Grace McDonnell was detailed on CNN for Anderson Cooper (Figure 6).

Figure 6. Chris and Lynn McDonnell interviewed by Anderson Cooper, December 18, 2012.

Veronique Pozner gave her account of her last look at her son Noah to the Jewish Daily Forward on December 26, 2013 (Figure 7): Veronique asked the medical examiners not to autopsy her son; she felt that his body had suffered too many indignities. At his funeral, Noah was dressed in a suit and tie. A Jewish friend of Veronique’s at work enjoined Rabbi Praver to allow him to be wrapped in a blue tallis, even though he had not yet had a bar mitzvah. The family placed stuffed animals, a blanket and letters to Noah into the casket. Lastly, Veronique put a clear plastic rock with a white angel inside—an “angel stone”—in his right hand. She asked the funeral director to place an identical one in his left, which was badly mangled. Just before the ceremony, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy came to the funeral home to pay his respects. Veronique took him by the arm and brought him to the casket. Noah’s famously long eyelashes—which she spoke about in her eulogy—rested lightly on his cheeks and a cloth covered the place where the lower half of his face had been. “I just needed it to be Figure 7. Veronique Pozner interview of real for [the governor],” she December 26, 2012, Jewish Daily Forward. 62

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says. “This was a live, warm, energetic little boy whose life was snuffed 17 out in a fraction of a second because our schools are so defenseless.”

2. Emergency protocols were not followed There is no evidence of any frantic effort to save lives or remove bodies to hospitals. Instead the scene outside the school looked calm and largely bloodless—with police and other personnel milling around casually and a severe shortage of dead or injured victims. One Sandy Hook researcher decided to call Lt. Paul Vance to ask who cleaned up the blood, which would have been considered a bio-hazard, and got the reply, “What blood?” “Kelley from Tulsa” discusses this with James Fetzer on the “The Real Deal” on 18 December 9, 2013. Kelley was onto a real issue: under the EPS’ Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988, a paper trail must kept by all parties involved in the cleanup and must be tracked all the way to the incinerator with names 19 and dates. In a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) like Sandy Hook, the proper protocol is START triage (Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment) using tarps of different colors with the aim being to save lives and get the injured to the hospital for 20 treatment (Figure 8). Red tarps indicate that “immediate” treatment is needed, yellow that treatment may be “delayed,” green that the injuries are “minor,” and black tarps signify “deceased.”

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Outside Sandy Hook Elementary, tarps were laid out, but not even the black tarps for the dead were used, much less the red ones for those who needed immediate treatment (Figure 9). As Sofia Smallstorm has documented, nothing at all like this occurred at Sandy Hook: the appropriate protocols 21 were not followed.

Figure 9. START tarps outside Sandy Hook Elementary with no victims.

Sandy Hook Fire Chief Bill Halstead was ready to help the victims 22 but could recall only two wounded people (Figure 10). A few survivors were reportedly taken to the hospital, but, oddly, these people were never interviewed. There were no first-hand accounts that proved anyone was killed or injured. Nonetheless, by the afternoon of December 14, Lt. Vance had

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confirmed that 18 children were pronounced dead at the scene, two children were removed to an area hospital and died at the hospital, and seven adults 23 were pronounced dead at the scene, including the shooter. No emergency vehicles were present at the school or even lined up in the fire lane for a rescue attempt—the parking lot was filled with parked cars, police cars and possibly media vehicles. Such rescue activity as occurred was centered, not on the school premises, but at the nearby Firehouse. Emergency vehicles at the Firehouse were jammed together impeding access to the school, in case anyone might have thought about attempting a rescue.

Figure 11. Crowds circling around and through the Sandy Hook Firehouse.

The scene at the Firehouse was quite peculiar, with people milling around and circling through the building, walking out one door and into another, to 24 give the impression of lots of people and lots of action (Figure 11). But it was all in accordance with FEMA manuals for drills.

3. Drill protocols were followed instead We are now living in a security state, and the school system is among its beneficiaries. While we used to have occasional “fire drills,” we now have “lockdown drills” implemented by school districts, with some states requiring a set number of drills by law. Private security firms, which operate for profit, now conduct “crisis preparedness assessments” at the taxpayer’s 25 expense. Larger scenarios are also developed as active-shooter drills, in which local law enforcement can take part in storming a school in pursuit of an active-actor-shooter.

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One such plan available on the web is “Operation Closed Campus,” developed in Iowa following guidance set forth by the Homeland Security Exercise and E va l u a t i o n Pr o gr a m (HSE E P) of t he US Department of Homeland 27 Security. According to protocol, everyone Figure 12. Lt. Paul Vance discussing an active shooter School, at the drill must check drill he was supervising at Oxford High 26 Oxford, CT, in August 2007. in, identification badges are issued to personnel and observers, and drinking water and restrooms are available. Personnel include the director, staff, controllers, evaluators, actors, media personnel and “players” (agency employees) both in uniforms and civilian clothes. Figure 13. “Gunshot wound victim” being made up for an active-shooter drill that took place in 28 2014 in Contra Costa County, CA.

This protocol appears to have been followed at Sandy Hook, where many participants wore ID/identification badges on lanyards, a huge check-in sign is visible in one Gene Rosen interview, water is available in quantity at the Firehouse (Figure 14), and even Port-a29 Potties are at the ready. The check-in sign was inserted via green screen, however, shown in an interview held days after the event, so its presence is controversial (see Figure 1).

Figure 14. Sandy Hook Firehouse on December 14, 2012, with drinking water for the participants, according to drill protocol.

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An emergency preparedness drill took place on December 14, 2012 (9:00 am – 4:00 pm ET), in Bridgeport, CT, which is a 20 minute drive from Sandy Hook. The course, “Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters,” was run by the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public 30 Protection/Emergency Management and Homeland Security. And a FEMA Mass Casualty Drill, “Emergency Response for Mass Casualties Involving Children,” was scheduled to take place on December 13 or 14, 2012 (location unspecified). The exercise was to target the following capabilities: Mass Prophylaxis, Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms, Suicide or Apprehension of Unknown Shooter, Use of Media for Evaluation, and Use 31 of Media for Information Distribution. This may have been the script for the Sandy Hook “shooting.” [Editor’s note: See Appendix A for the Sandy Hook FEMA drill manual.] The Sandy Hook “massacre” appears to have been an Integrated Capstone Event (ICE), an exercise run by FEMA to coordinate federal, state and local 32 emergency response teams in the case of a mass-casualty event. As such, it would have utilized actors and media partners to simulate a tragedy in order to train participants, and also to observe the reaction of the citizenry.

4. There was foreknowledge of the event The Connecticut state emergency system was taken over long before the “massacre” occurred, with a frequency change implemented five hours in advance of the “shooting.” Normal police and EMS dispatch protocol, using the Alpha Phonetic System for communications between officers and dispatchers, was replaced with staged 33 transmissions by non-trained personnel. In addition, tweets about the shooting 34 began before it occurred, a tribute was apparently uploaded one month before the event, and web pages honoring the victims, including a Facebook page R.I.P. Victoria Soto, were established before they had 35 “officially” died (Figure 15). Figure 15. R.I.P. Victoria Soto facebook page, with “Joined Facebook December 10”. 67

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And photos of the “evacuation” and “shooting” scene by Newtown Bee photographer Shannon Hicks were taken before December 14, 2012 (see below). A Sandy Hook timeline has been reconstructed at memoryholeblog. com, detailing major developments and highlighting the numerous 36 inconsistencies in reports by the media. [Editor’s note: See Appendix C.]

5. There were contradictory reports about the weapons According to initial reports, weapons used in the shooting included four handguns recovered at the scene, the only guns taken into the school (NBC). Then an AR–15 was said to have been found in the trunk of Lanza’s car (NBC). Then it was reported that Lanza may have carried only two handguns and that a rifle was also found in the school (NBC). Wayne Carver, the Medical Examiner, said that all the victims were 37 shot with the “long weapon.” Lt. Paul Vance then said that a Bushmaster AR–15 assault weapon with high capacity magazines was used “most of the time” and that Lanza was carrying “many high-capacity clips” for the weapon (Huffington Post). In January 2013, Connecticut state police released a statement indicating that they had found three guns inside the school: a Bushmaster .223 caliber XM 15–E2S semi-automatic rifle with high capacity 30 round clips, a Glock 10mm handgun, and a Sig Sauer P226 9mm handgun (Figures 16–18). Figure 16. Bushmaster allegedly found inside the school (2013 final report, Walkley scene photos).

Figure 17. Glock and clip allegedly found inside the school (2013 final report, Walkley scene photos).

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Figure 18. Sig Sauer and clip allegedly found inside the school (2013 final report, Walkley scene photos).

The police said they also found an Izhmash Saiga–12 12-gauge shotgun in Lanza’s car (NBC). This is presumably the gun shown in a video aired on the night of December 14, 2012, by NBC (Figure 19). An evidence collection team and a policeman are shown finding the shotgun in the trunk of Lanza’s Honda Civic— the policeman handles the gun without gloves and ejects the 38 ammunition on the spot, destroying evidence in the process. Some have seen two long guns in the trunk in the NBC video: the 12-gauge shotgun and 39 the Bushmaster rifle.

Figure 19. Policeman ejecting ammunition from a long gun found in the trunk of Adam Lanza’s car on December 14, 2012.

Lt. Vance then asserted that Lanza had killed all his victims with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle (ctpost.com). Regarding the confusion, Vance told reporters, “It’s all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters.” Perhaps “The Top Prize for Fantastical Reporting” goes to Fox News, however, which announced that a 12-gauge shotgun along with two magazines 69

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containing 70 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge shotgun rounds had been found in the glove compartment of Adam Lanza’s Honda Civic—that’s right, in the 40 glove compartment.

6. Adam Lanza cannot have done the shooting Adam Lanza, reportedly a frail young m a n we i ghi ng 112 pounds with Asperger’s Syndrome, is said to have carried massive weaponry on his person when he shot his way into the Sandy Hook school and proceeded Figure 20. A young Adam Lanza, who supposedly “fell to kill 26 people and off the face of the earth” around 2009, with no record of his activities since that time (CNN). then himself. This after he supposedly killed his mother before driving to the school. It should of course be noted that Adam Lanza was initially listed in the Social Security Death Index as having died on December 13, 2012, one day before the 41 alleged shooting. According to State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky, Lanza killed his 26 victims with the Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle and then killed himself with his 42 Glock 10mm handgun. Lanza was also allegedly carrying three 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster as well as a Sig Sauer 9mm handgun (see above). The victims were supposedly shot multiple times each in a fusillade of bullets from these military-style weapons. In order to wreak this havoc, he fired more than 150 rounds, and he carried more rounds in addition. Lanza was reportedly found dead wearing a bulletproof vest and military-style clothing (AP). As Mike Powers, a professional military investigator and ballistics expert, has observed, this young man of slight build could not have carried all these heavy, bulky weapons and ammunition on his person. Furthermore, since first responders were supposedly inside the school within seven minutes, there was not enough time for Lanza to have carried out the shooting as reported. In an interview with Joyce Riley, Powers states that Lanza could not have fired so many times continuously without destabilizing himself from the intense noise from the Bushmaster. As a novice, he could not have shot an AR–15 with such speed and accuracy, supposedly changing magazines 4–5 times without 43 a stoppage. For a real person shooting an AR–15 and what it entails, see Redsilverj’s “Sandy Hook Hoax Ultimate Case Closed” (Figure 21): 70

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Figure 21. A skilled marksman shooting off 100 rounds from an AR–15.

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The final travesty involves the weapons and other paraphernalia that 45 were allegedly found in the Lanza house. [Editor’s note: See Chapter 6.] The “arsenal” supposedly included guns, Samurai swords, knives, a bayonet and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, according to search warrants released. Other items of interest were ear and eye protection, binoculars, holsters, manuals, paper targets, a military-style uniform, and Lanza’s NRA certificate (Fox). Lanza had reportedly compiled a spreadsheet 7 feet long and 4 feet wide in 9-point type detailing 500 victims of other mass murders (CBS). We are supposed to believe this, and, at the same time, that Adam Lanza was a shy, quiet kid who didn’t like noise and chaos, as promoted 46 by the PBS Frontline Special, “Raising Adam Lanza.”

7. Key participants displayed inappropriate behavior There are many bizarre media reports and interviews of those associated with the “shooting.” Many of the participants seem to be actors (or intelligence operatives). Some examples: Wayne Carver—Medical Examiner Wayne Carver’s surreal press conference is one of the most startling of all the media offerings. Widely available on youtube, this event shows H. Wayne Carver II, a public official of some standing, clowning and acting outlandish—grinning strangely, making irrelevant comments, and basically appearing unknowledgeable and 47 unprofessional (Figure 23).

Figure 23. Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, entertainer.

Robbie Parker—Perhaps the most infamous press conference is that of Robbie Parker, the alleged father of victim Emilie Parker, speaking on a CNN report of December 15, 2012. He chuckles as he walks up to the camera (Figure 24), then gets into character by hyperventilating, and finally feigns distress as he talks about his daughter—reading from a cue card—and about 48 the fund set up to help raise money “for Emilie.” 72

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Figure 24. Robbie Parker, walking up to the camera for his interview.

The families—In addition to Robbie and Alissa Parker, other parents and family members take their turn in the spotlight, including (but not limited to) Mark and Jackie Barden, Jimmy Greene and Nelba Marquez–Greene, Ian and Nicole Hockley, Neil Heslin (alleged father of Jesse Lewis), Chris and Lynn McDonnell, Veronique Pozner, Carlee Soto, and David and Francine 49 Wheeler. Anderson Cooper is the interviewer in two notable instances: his conversation with the McDonnells mentioned above, and an interview with Veronique Pozner, remarkable for its green-screen effects such as Anderson’s 50 disappearing nose (Figure 25).

Figure 25. Anderson Cooper during a green-screen interview of Veronique Pozner.

The school nurse—Numerous reports offer detailed and totally fictitious information, some of which was later abandoned in favor of more tenable versions. On the evening of December 14, a USA Today reporter said she had spoken with the school nurse (not identified by name), whom she had met on the street (Figure 26). The nurse told her that the gunman had come into her office, “they met eyes, she jumped under her desk,” and he walked out. The nurse said that the gunman was the son of the kindergarten teacher, who was known to her and “an absolutely loving person.” It later developed that Nancy Lanza had not been a kindergarten teacher at all, and that neither Nancy 51 nor Adam had any proven connection to Sandy Hook school whatsoever. 73

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Figure 26. USA Today reporting a fabricated story about the school nurse, the gunman, and his mother the kindergarten teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Dawn Hochsprung—In an embarrassing fiction, The Newtown Bee reported on December 14, 2012, that Dawn Hochsprung, the Sandy Hook school principal, told the paper that a masked man had entered the school with a rifle and started shooting multiple shots—more than she could count—that went “on and on.” Of course, Dawn Hochsprung was allegedly killed by Adam Lanza and so could not easily have provided this statement. In fact, Dawn was said to have acted heroically, dying while lunging at the gunman—although one wonders who witnessed and reported this act of heroism. On December 17, 2012, The Bee retracted the report and apologized: An early online report from the scene at the December 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School quoted a woman who identified herself to our reporter as the principal of the school. The woman was not the school’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung, who was killed in the Friday morning attack. The quote was removed from subsequent online versions of the story, but the original story did remain in our online archive for three days before being deleted. We apologize for whatever confusion this may have caused our readers and for any pain or anguish it may have cause 52 [sic] the Hochsprung family. Gene Rosen—Gene Rosen is one of the most prolific of the Sandy Hook media stars, giving animated and conflicting statements to a series of reporters (in English and Spanish). Considered a “good Samaritan” by the mainstream media, Gene supposedly harbored six children who ran away from the school, rode to his house on a school bus, sat down on his lawn and proceeded to cry and tell him that their teacher, Miss Soto, was dead. Strangely, Rosen took the children inside and gave them some toys to play with, instead of calling 53 911 like any normal person. The Gene Rosen videos are important for the official narrative, in that they corroborate many of its details: the staccato gunfire (and thus a semi74

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automatic weapon) and hearsay evidence from the children (Lanza had a big gun and a little gun, Vicki Soto was killed, etc.). These incriminating videos are some of the best evidence that the Sandy Hook shooting Figure 27. Gene Rosen signaling to a “reporter” that was a hoax. he wants to start over, after bungling his lines in a practice interview.

8. Photos at scene and of victims look staged or fake Many of the photos released to the public look staged or fake; here are some notable examples: Shannon Hicks photo of children being evacuated from the school— The only photo we have seen of any children being evacuated from the school was apparently taken earlier in the fall during a drill—no coats, smiling 54 faces, leaves remaining on a few trees. Shannon Hicks of The Newtown Bee took the “iconic” photo (Figure 28) and claimed to have taken many others of the event—although no other children being evacuated were seen in those released to the media. Hicks reportedly took the famous photo “as an associate editor” and then, when another editor arrived, “changed into her firefighting gear and tried to help.” This heroic account was promoted 55 by NPR on December 16.

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An analysis of the Hicks “iconic” photo has shown that it was not taken around 10:00 am on the morning of December 14, 2012—the shadows are wrong for that time of day, no one’s breath has condensed into visible vapor (although the recorded temperature was 28 degrees F and frost appears on the ground in other photos), the markings on the parking lot are wrong, 56 the positions of the vehicles and traffic cone do not match, etc. A recent sun-shadow analysis shows that the photo was taken at around 11:10 am, not at 10:09 am as alleged by Hicks, and clearly not on the cold morning of 57 December 14. Indeed, another photo appeared (Figure 29), showing what appears to be a preliminary staging for the famous “iconic” photo released worldwide. Here also is the line of students but in a somewhat different order. In addition, several onlookers stand in the foreground; the woman at center may have been snapping photographs, although there is certainly someone else taking pictures here—the photographer who captured this second image.

Figure 29. Staging of the “evacuation” photo, with children in a different arrangement than in the final version.

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Figure 30. “Newtown Bee Stinger.”

Photo of shattered plate glass window at entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary—Several photos from Connecticut’s December 2013 final report show the plate glass window that Adam Lanza allegedly shot out with his Bushmaster, and through which he entered the premises. But how did he get past the furniture, with all his weaponry, without moving anything 60 out of position? Not only did Lanza squeeze through this hole and edge carefully through the narrow space between the couch and table, but so did 61 ten policemen, all with their guns and gear, according to sworn affidavits. Yet nothing was pushed aside, and the magazine rack looks like it was moved carefully away from the window (Figure 31).

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Many of the photos from the December 2013 final report look staged, such as those showing small numbers of bullets scattered over the school floor, or the unlikely shots of Adam Lanza’s clothing (see Figure 22 above). Just as insidious are photographs of the children who allegedly died at Sandy Hook, many of which were demonstrably altered via Photoshop. Most of the individual images of the children released to the media are peculiar— numerous images have a curiously similar background of green foliage, and several look outdated and may be old photos. Parker family photos—Some of the most problematic involve the Parker family, several of which show evidence of tampering. In two notorious photos, Emilie’s red-and-black dress appears in both: once worn by Emilie in a Photoshopped family photo (Figure 32) and then supposedly worn by her younger sister Madeline for the photo-op with Barack Obama (Figure 33).

Figure 32. Photoshopped image of the Parker family, showing the two youngest girls missing their legs and Emilie, at right, apparently added to the image.

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merely flipped and inserted into the class picture. In doing so the creators had to reconstruct her right hand and did so poorly, cutting off her thumb with a vertical line. Ann Marie Murphy was also inserted, and her hand too is problematic. T h e ha n d s o f t h e children are blurry, their eyes are fuzzy, and square and rectangular defects appear on their faces—all unnoticeable in a small Figure 33. President Obama with children from the image but readily seen Parker family (and others), in which Emilie’s sister Madeline is supposedly wearing her red-and-black when enlarged (Figure 35 dress. 63 on the next page).

Figure 34. Photograph of Victoria Soto’s first grade class, a Photoshopped composite.

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Figure 35. Soto’s class photo with defects visible in enlarged images (Megatronics Media).

Allison Wyatt/Lily Gaubert—In a likely sloppy slip-up, a photo of a real child, Lily Gaubert (Figure 36, left), who is apparently alive and well, was promoted in the media as an image of Allison Wyatt (Figure 36, right), an alleged victim. Lily’s mother supposedly discovered the error and made it 64 public via Flickr.

Figure 36. Lily Gaubert (left) and Allison Wyatt (right).

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Figure 37. Adam Lanza, four fake photos.

9. The crime scene was completely destroyed As with Ground Zero after 9/11, Sandy Hook Elementary and all the evidence have been completely obliterated; $50 million in CT state funds were allocated for the demolition and rebuilding of Sandy Hook school. This would never have been tolerated if an actual crime had been committed—at 66 least one that was meant to be investigated. The demolition of the school has been completed and rebuilding is in progress.

Figure 38. Demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary nearing completion (November 13, 2013)

Employees who worked on the project were required to sign non67 disclosure agreements. They were not only prohibited from removing anything from the site, but they were forbidden from discussing publicly anything they may have observed or not observed during the demolition, such as an absence of bullet marks on the walls or blood on the floor of the classrooms. 81

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Researchers have speculated that the Sandy Hook Elementary School was not a working school in December 2012, and may have been closed for 68 years. Photos indicate the deplorable physical condition of the school and its grounds, as well as loads of junk in rooms, halls, and closets, more appropriate for a storage facility—but with classrooms staged to look real. Sandy Hook Elementary was indeed dilapidated, nothing like the marvelous school that people say drew parents to the Newtown community. The new Sandy Hook School has been designed (Figure 39) and is in the process of being built. The building is scheduled for completion by 2016, in time for the 2016–2017 school year, according to the official project 69 website. In FAQ at the website, the question is asked, “Why was the decision made to build a new school and not just renovate?” The response: Analysis of the renovate vs. build new by the Advisory Committee showed that costs to renovate this 56 year old building, bring it up to code, eliminate the portables, make it energy efficient, provide necessary safety features, and more, generated a cost almost at the same level of 70 new building construction. This is underscored by an article in the Newtown Bee, clear acknowledgment that Sandy Hook Elementary was old, unsafe, and not up 71 to code at the time of the alleged shooting.

Figure 39. Design for the new Sandy Hook School, Svigals + Partners, LLP (design team) and Consigli Construction Co., Inc. (construction manager), scheduled for completion in 2016.

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brothers of victims singing in the Newtown children’s choir at the 2013 Super Bowl, February 3, 2013.

Figure 40. “Sandy Hook Elementary School Chorus” sings “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl XLVII, along with Jennifer Hudson and Sabrina Post of 72 Encore Productions.

Identified here are Charlotte Bacon, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Grace McDonnell, Emilie Parker, Caroline Previdi, Avielle Richman, and Benjamin Wheeler, along with victims’ brothers Guy Bacon, Jake Hockley, Freddy 73 Hubbard, Jack McDonnell, Walker Previdi, and Nate Wheeler.

Figure 41. Screen capture from “Sandy Hoax Surprise.”

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One more victim has been identified since the original video, Noah 74 Pozner, making a total of 15 out of the 26 children in the choir who were from the Sandy Hook “families.” The newly recognized victims are all older than they appear in the photos released at the time of the “shooting,” giving credence to the theory that the victims’ photos we were shown were outdated images. The children in the Newtown choir, whoever they are, seem quite happy to be singing at the Super Bowl, smiling and running across the field after the event—giving no sign of the trauma they had suffered less than two months prior. So are the dead children actually alive? One can only hope.

Cui bono? The evidence thus demonstrates that (1) proof of death was suppressed, (2) emergency protocols were not followed, (3) drill protocols were followed instead, (4) there was foreknowledge of the event, (5) there was confusion over the weapons supposedly used, (6) Adam Lanza cannot possibly have carried out the shooting as claimed, (7) strange and inappropriate behavior was displayed by officials, witnesses, and relatives, (8) many odd photos of the participants and premises were released, (9) the crime scene was destroyed under conditions of secrecy, and (10) as many as nine of the children who were supposedly murdered appeared on television singing at the Super Bowl seven weeks later. With the possible exception of (5) and (9), all these features yield a low probability that Sandy Hook was a massacre but a high probability that it was 75 a staged psy-op tied to a drill. Some of them are decisive by themselves, such as (1), (2), (3), (4), and (6)—not to mention (10). And nothing else about this event supports the conclusion that it was real as reported. Although this may be hard to believe for some—“no one could have faked a massacre like this,” “we watched the funerals on TV,” or “there were too many people involved and someone would have spilled the beans”—the evidence is conclusive. To return to the maxim of Sherlock Holmes, “when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” So who did it and why? The “shooter” Adam Lanza had no apparent motive, as even the 2013 final report acknowledged: Why did the shooter murder twenty-seven people, including twenty children? Unfortunately, that question may never be answered conclusively… there is no clear indication why he did so, or why he targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School. 84

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But all good detectives will look for a motive when investigating a crime. When considering cui bono (who benefits), a large amount of money is at stake–and much of it has already been distributed.

Follow the money First of all, the construction industry got a boost, with the $50 million in Connecticut state funds allocated for the destruction of Sandy Hook School 76 and rebuilding of a new school on the premises. And this from a state with 77 a projected budget deficit of $1.1 billion for the 2015–2016 fiscal year. The Sandy Hook School Support Fund raised approximately $12 million and distributed it to the Newtown– Sandy Hook Community Foundation, overseen by Ken Feinberg, “a victim compensation master with a national 78 reputation,” according to United Way of Western Connecticut. And the Support Fund/United Way posted its condolences on December 11, 2013, which was three days before the actual event. The Sandy Hook School Support Fund paid $281,000 to each of the victims’ families, as well as $20,000 each to the families of 12 children who reportedly witnessed the shootings but 79 survived, and $150,000 to two teachers who were injured.

Figure 42. Google search page listing the United Way 80 document date as December 11, 2012.

The families have also raised additional funds through private organizations with their own websites—some of which were apparently advertised on the web in advance of the shooting. These include efforts such as 26 Miles for Caroline (Previdi), the Musical Benefit for Catherine Hubbard Foundation, Ben’s Lighthouse (Benjamin Wheeler), and Noah’s Ark of Hope 85

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(Noah Pozner). All of the victims, both children and adults, have had memorial 81 funds established in their names to collect money. “Sandy Hook Promise,” which actively solicits money “to protect children and prevent gun violence by providing awareness, education, and programs in the areas of mental health, mental wellness, and gun safety,” currently boasts over 434,000 people who have made the “Sandy Hook 82 Promise” to turn the “tragedy into a moment of transformation.” Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden are staff members. As part of their fund- raising efforts, the group sells car decals, wrist bands, T-shirts, and OPI limitededition Sandy Hook Green nail polish. The latest estimate of funds available to Sandy Hook Promise is $3 million. Figure 43. OPI’s Limitededition Sandy Hook Green Nail Polish for a donation of $26 to Sandy Hook Promise.

The federal government has also forked over a lot of taxpayer money, including a $150,000 federal grant to Newtown to pay for two “school resource officers” (aka police), $1.5 million from the US Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime, and $2.5 million in federal funds from the DOJ to compensate the Connecticut State Police, the town of Newtown, the town of Monroe, and other partner agencies. In June 2014, the DOJ gave Newtown another $7.1 million for mental health counseling for families, law 83 enforcement, and first responders. In December 2014, another $775,914 was donated by the DOJ Office for Victims of Crimes for Sandy Hook victims, 84 their families, first responders, and members of the Newtown Community. In addition, the US Department of Education has awarded a total of $3.2 million to the Newtown Public School District under Project SERV (School Emergency Response to Violence) to help with ongoing recovery efforts 85 following the shooting. This total of $15.2 million in hush money is sure to keep the lid on things for now. The latest edition of the video “We Need To Talk about Sandy Hook,” lists a total of $131,009,229 in grants and donations, including the $50 86

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86 million for the new school, but this is only a partial accounting. Indeed, the total amount of money raised to date cannot easily be calculated. A 2014 Connecticut report on charitable donations lists organizations such as The Animal Center, Inc., Newtown Forest Association, Inc., Sandy Hook Arts Center for Kids, and Angels of Sandy Hook Bracelets, all raising funds for Sandy Hook Elementary.

Gun control The issue of gun control gained ground after the Sandy Hook “shooting,” with widespread coverage in the mainstream press, expertly juxtaposed with 87 maudlin stories about the fallen children to tug at the nation’s heartstrings. The families have been out in force, appearing on television and in print, lobbying for gun control in the states and the US capitol. By now, their stories are known to everyone in America. In late February 2013, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a relentless gun-control advocate, used his clout to meet separately with Vice President Biden and several senators. At the same time, Neil Heslin, father of alleged victim Jesse, testified tearfully at a Senate hearing on the banning of assault 88 weapons. Publicity surged in late March, when authorities allegedly found a huge cache of guns, ammunition, and exotic weaponry in the Lanza home, 89 publishing a detailed list and photos (see above, reason #6). On April 2, 2013, the United Nations “Arms Trade Treaty” regulating the international trade in conventional arms was passed by the General 90 Assembly. On April 8, 2013, 12 parents of the Sandy Hook “victims” flew with President Obama to Washington, D.C., aboard Air Force One to lobby congress on gun-control legislation put forward by the White House—which 91 ultimately failed. The continuing media blitz has created an impression that the Sandy Hook hoax was all about gun control. Meanwhile, however, the gun industry has benefited immensely.

Figure 44. “The Newtown 12”: Sandy Hook parents deplaning from Air Force One on April 8, 2013.

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The New York Times reported in 2013 that around 1,500 state gun bills had been introduced in the year following the shooting, with 109 becoming law. However, nearly two-thirds of these laws ease legal restrictions and 92 support the rights of gun owners. This may have been an unintended consequence of an intentional plan. Nonetheless, it is not clear that the Sandy Hook event was carried out solely with the aim of passing gun-control legislation. More plausibly it was a Gladio-type operation—implementing a strategy of tension with real and simulated events in order to control and 93 oppress the population. It does appear that the government is out to disarm the American public, if not by legal means then ultimately by seizure. The efforts of “the families” at promoting gun-control legislation may merely be a pretext, a prelude to accustom us to the idea; the increasing number of false-flag shootings may eventually be used as grounds to round up weapons. This would involve a beefed-up security apparatus, which is already in progress.

The security state The already immense and rapidly growing “security industry” has also benefitted from the Sandy Hook “massacre,” as we, the citizens of the United States, lose more of our Constitutional rights (see above, reason #3). Efforts 94 to increase security in schools—and even arm teachers—are underway. This suggests an orchestrated charade in which more gun violence is partnered with more guns in society, but held only by the approved authorities. The Sandy Hook families have pushed continually for increased security measures along with gun control legislation, starting right after 95 the “shooting.” Some are now directly invol ved with security companies, such as the Gay, Parker, Mattioli, and Rekos families, which are affiliated with “Safe and Sound,” a nonprofit started by Michele Gay Figure 45. NaviGate Prepared, a “sponsor” of and Alissa Parker, mothers of Safe and Sound, affiliated with the Gay, Parker, Mattioli, and Rekos families. alleged victims Josephine Gay 88

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and Emilie Parker (who, by the way, were both identified in the children’s choir that sang at the 2013 Super Bowl). Safe and Sound is partnered with NaviGate Prepared, a for-profit “school safety emergency response system,” 96 as well as with several other “sponsors.”

Mental health screening and treatment In a 2015 TEDxTalk, Nicole Hockley relates gun violence to mental health issues, another pervasive concern of the Sandy Hook parents. After reciting the statistics on shooting deaths, she urges us to learn how to “identify children who may be troubled and get them help…to insure that those that are crying out for help on social media are properly investigated before they hurt themselves or someone else…” We can find out about all the actions that we can take, “focused on identification and intervention,” at the Sandy 97 Hook Promise website.

Figure 46. Standing ovation for Nicole Hockley’s TEDx Talk at the University of Nevada, Reno.

This is part of a more subtle but insidious effort to promote mental health screening and the consequent treatment (medication) of the “mentally 98 unstable” in our society, based upon an event that did not take place. We are asked to consider Adam Lanza’s “mental illness,” which was supposedly “completely untreated,” based on unverified information in a November 2014 report of the State of Connecticut’s Office of the Child 99 Advocate. 89

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We find that Adam had Autism Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as well as possible undiagnosed Anorexia, and was deprived of recommended services and drugs. It is here that we learn Adam was 6 feet tall and weighed 112 pounds. The report resulted in numerous recommendations, based on the fictional medical and psychological evaluation of Adam Lanza, including universal mental-health screening for children ages birth to 21, and the evaluation of children by the school system. The report exposes one purpose of the Sandy Hook event: a “dramatically intensified bureaucratic and quasi-scientific control over the everyday lives of children alongside the 100 continued erosion of the family itself.”

Trauma-based mind control & “The Revelation of the Method” Beyond all these agendas, the Sandy Hook “massacre” was an exercise in trauma-based mind control, employed with increasing frequency in the US (and throughout the world) since the mega-trauma of 9/11. As with 9/11, the official Sandy Hook narrative is nothing like what really happened, as proven again and again by an army of independent researchers. The official version is recounted in detail at Wikipedia—the go-to source for the propaganda that 101 the intelligence state wishes to convey. This false and illogical account is transmitted through all forms of media—TV, radio, newspapers, websites, and magazines, many of which have been taken over in toto by the intelligence services since 9/11. The evolving account has become so confusing, with its inconsistencies and contradictions, that most people find it easier to accept the official story and go about their business—resulting in a nation of people who can no longer think for themselves, even when confronted with the obvious. On the most basic level, mass terror and tragedy are used to frighten the public into acquiescence, causing people to band together as a community and turn to their leaders for guidance. Thus the seemingly endless series of violent assaults in the form of terrorist attacks, lone-wolf shootings, and white-on-black police killings, all to keep us focused on these horrifying acts and not on the looting of the US treasury or illegal foreign wars. Perhaps the most significant achievement of the Sandy Hook event was the creation of a terrifying crisis that did not actually occur—but was vividly portrayed in the media—allowing the perpetrators both to achieve their objectives and to gauge the public’s response. Would-be investigators have also been taken in—chasing red herrings, delving deeply into individual facets of the mystery, and grasping at anomalies in an effort to solve the crime. We too are manipulated, as the 90

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perpetrators allow details to emerge—The Revelation of the Method— 102 and watch our reaction. Thus Governor Malloy’s statement that “the Lieutenant Governor and I have been spoken to in an attempt that we might 103 be prepared for something like this playing itself out in our state,” or Wayne Carver’s “I hope the people of Newtown don’t have it crash on their head later.” Likewise the “Please Check In” sign (Figure 1), Gene Rosen’s practice interview (Figure 27), and memorial websites posted before the date of the tragedy (Figure 42). Part of this ploy is the ridicule of the populace, a “macabre nose-thumbing 104 at our complete indifference to our mental enslavement,” such as the smiling relatives and weird interviews, Noah Pozner shown among photos of the victims of a Taliban attack in Pakistan, the myriad police photos providing no evidence, and—the ultimate joke on every sentient person—the students alive and well and singing at the Super Bowl. Such stunts are intentional, and are not only fun for the perpetrators but are seen to enhance their power. In the face of this brutal violence, we are told to choose LOVE. This was expressed by the resigned and even cheerful parents and other participants in their interviews, even though their relatives and friends had died in a horrific bloodbath only one or two days earlier. This has also occurred with other recent manufactured acts of terror, such as the Boston Marathon Bombing and the recent Charleston church shooting. People choose love, resilient communities magically bond together, and everyone moves on to the healing 105 process—immediately. Such hoaxes involve government at the highest levels, as shown by 106 Obama’s visit to Newtown (and Boston and Charleston), the use of Air Force One to fly the families to Washington, D.C., and Francine Wheeler’s 107 White House Weekly Address (April 13, 2013). Such government complicity has been demonstrated for the assassination of JFK, the attacks of 9/11, and beyond. In the face of such vast conspiracies, it is hard to know how to view the world. When one understands the Sandy Hook psy-op, however, things come into focus. When contemplating our current predicament—the incessant “mass shootings” and their promotion in the media, the trashing of the constitution and rise of the security state, and the use of false flags and fake data to direct policy on everything from “climate change” to the “war on terror”—we can study the lessons of Sandy Hook, and navigate accordingly. Vivian Lee, is the nom de plume of a Sandy Hook researcher and professor at an East Coast University. 91

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Notes 1 http://video.foxnews.com/v/2043823745001/man-comforts-sandy-hook-students-hefound-in-his-driveway/?#sp=show-clips. “The Sandy Hook HOAX and Gene Green Screen.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViclRKcM7A. 2 The article was removed from VT in May 2015 but has been reposted at the site. Original URL: www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/07/top-ten-reasons-sandy-hookwas-an-elaborate-hoax/. New URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/ top-ten-reasons-sandy-hook-was-an-elaborate-hoax/. I wish to acknowledge here the co-authors of that article—James Fetzer, James Tracy, Sofia Smallstorm, and members of the Sandy Hook research group—as well as QKultra, Redsilverj, the participants in “We Need To Talk about Sandy Hook,” and many other researchers who have worked on the Sandy Hook event. 3 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Reports, Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. http://cspsandyhookreport.ct.gov/ 4 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Reports. Redaction index. http:// cspsandyhookreport.ct.gov/cspshr/Redaction_Index.pdf. 5 “Final Sandy Hook Report Still Leaves Questions.” http://www.newstimes.com/ news/article/Final-Sandy-Hook-report-still-leaves-questions-5106788.php. 6 “Final Report on Sandy Hook Killings Sheds New Light on Gunman’s Isolation.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/nyregion/with-release-of-final-sandy-hookshooting-report-investigation-is-said-to-be-over.html. 7 State of Connecticut, Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, Office of the Commissioner, letter from Commissioner Bradford. http:// cspsandyhookreport.ct.gov/cspshr/Sandy_Hook_Cover_Letter.pdf. 8 James Fetzer, “Thinking about ‘Conspiracy Theories’: 9/11 and JFK.” http:// www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/fetzerexpandedx.pdf. 9 “Principal Outlined New Security Procedures at Sandy Hook Elementary School.” http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc- security-letter-newtown-shootings20121214-story.html. 10 “The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information.” http://memoryholeblog.com/2012/12/24/the-sandy-hook-massacre-unansweredquestions-and-missing-information/. 11 For the full press conference, see “Medical Examiner FULL Press Conference – Sandy Hook School Mass Shooting.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0OT5od9DA. 12 The alleged death certificates of Adam Lanza and Noah Pozner were released in 2014 by one Lenny Pozner. Adam Lanza was initially listed as dying on December 13, 2012, according to www.geneaologybank.com following the Social Security Death 92

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Vivian Lee, Ph.D. watch?v=CnqKikVbHeM. 27 “Operation Closed Campus,” Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 2011 Full Scale Exercise (FSE). http://static.infowars.com/2011/03/i/general/ExPlan_03222011.pdf. 28 “Lamorinda Active Shooter Drill, CERT Disaster Response Team, Contra Costa County, CA, December 17, 2014. http://lamorindacert.org/lamorinda-active-shooterdrill/. 29 “Sandy Hook Hoax—The FEMA School Shooting Handbook Says.” https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=i0782lVrxg8. 3 0 h t t p : / / w w w. c t . g o v / d e m h s / i c a l / e v e n t D e t a i l _ p a g e . a s p ? d a t e _ ID=CAC9C6C9CD83CDC9C7. 31 Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mass Casualty Drill, Exercise Plan. The date December 14, 2012, is listed on the title page, but December 13, 2012, is given on pp. 12, 14-15 of the document. See James Tracy, “FEMA/DHS 12/14/12 Plan for ‘Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms.” http://memoryholeblog. com/2014/10/08/femadhs-12142012-pla n-for-ma ss-death-of- children-at-a-schoolby-firearms/. [Editor’s note: The rehearsal was on the 13th, going LIVE on the 14th. See Appendix A.] 32 https://cdp.dhs.gov/training/integrated-capstone-event/. 33 Dennis Cimino with Jim Fetzer, “The Nexus of Tyranny: The Strategy behind Tucson, Aurora, and Sandy Hook.” http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/thenexus-of-tyranny-the-strategy-behind-tucson-aurora-and-sandy-hook/. 34 “Sandy Hook Early Birds,” Jennifer Lake’s Blog. https://jenniferlake.wordpress. com/?s=sandy+hook+tweets. It is still unclear whether the time stamps on these early tweets reflect Eastern or Pacific Standard Time. 35 “Sandy Hook RIP/Donation Webpages Created BEFORE the Massacre.” http:// fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/01/08/sandy-hook-ripdonation-webpages-createdbefore-the-massacre/. “Sandy Hook Update: United Way of Western Holds Back Donations?” http://www.insanemedia.net/sandy-hook-update-united-way-of-westernholds-back-donations/2266. Evidence from web pages showing foreknowledge of the event is discussed in detail in “We Need to Talk about Sandy Hook—NEW 2015.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD0z275nQnM. 36 “Sandy Hook School Massacre Time Line.” http://memoryholeblog. com/2013/01/06/sandy-hook-school-massacre-timeline/. 37 Supran. 11. 38 “Police Find Long Gun in Trunk of Car in Sandy Hook Parking Lot: Newtown Connecticut School Shooting.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLrxSgkqJQc.

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90 The treaty entered into force on December 24, 2014. http://www.un.org/ disarmament/ATT/. 91 “Newtown 12: Sounds of Silence Echoing in Washington.” http://go.bloomberg. com/political-capital/2013-04-08/newtown-12-sounds-of-silence-breakingin-washington/. “Senate Blocks Drive for GunControl.” http://www.nytimes. com/2013/04/18/us/politics/senate-obama-gun-control.html. 92 “State Gun Laws Enacted in the Year Since Newtown.” http://www.nytimes.com/ interactive/2013/12/10/us/state-gun-laws-enacted- in-the-year-since-newtown.html. 93 James Tracy, “Mass Traumatization and the Body Public.” http://memoryholeblog. com/2013/07/02/mass-traumatiz ation-and-the- body-politic/. 94 “Report Sees Guns As Path to Safety in Schools.” http://www.nytimes. com/2013/04/03/us/nra-details-plan-for-armed-school-guards.html. “A Missouri School Trains Its Teachers To Carry Guns, and Most Parents Approve.” http://www. nytimes.com/2013/04/15/us/missouri-school-trains-teachers-to-carry-guns.html. 95 “Family of Noah Pozner Calls for New Laws to Avert School Violence, Hold Gun Owners Accountable.” http://articles.courant.com/2013-01-13/news/hc-newtownpozner-family-gun-recommendations-20130113_1_gun-violence-gun-owner-lawenforcement. 96 http://www.safeandsoundschools.org/our-team-safe-and-sound-schools/; www. navigateprepared.com. 97 “Preventing Gun Violence without Just Talking about the Gun.” http://tedxtalks. ted.com/video/Preventing-Gun-Violence-Without. 98 “In Gun Debate, No Rift on Better Care for Mentally Ill.” http://www.nytimes. com/2013/04/13/us/politics/senators-make- bipartisan-push-for-mental-health-care. html. 99 “Adam Lanza’s Mental Problems ‘Completely Untreated’ before Newtown Shootings, Report Says.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/nyregion/beforenewtown-shootings-adam-lanzas-mental-problems-completely-untreated-reportsays.html. Report of the Office of the Child Advocate. http://www.nytimes.com/ interactive/2014/11/22/nyregion/report-on-adam-lanza.html. 100 Vivian Lee and James Tracy, “CT Report Lays Groundwork for Nationwide Psychiatric Surveillance.”http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/11/23/ct-report-laysgroundwork-for-psychiatric-panopticon/. 101 Vivian Lee, “Convicted on Wikipedia.” http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/10/06/ convicted-on-wikipedia/. 102 Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (Coeur 99

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(1) it had been a drill; (2) no children had been killed; and, (3) it had been done to promote an anti-gun agenda. Given his background of 41 years in the California public school system (from custodian to district superintendent) and having served as a teacher, coach, vice-principal and principal before retiring in 2012 as the superintendent of two charter schools, I thought what he had to say about Sandy Hook deserved widespread dissemination. So when we did a two-hour show on Revolution Radio, “False Flags (9/11, Sandy Hook and the Boston bombing)” on 30 May 2014, as the third segment, I included the second 30-minutes of Sofia’s interview with Paul Preston, which is archived on “The Real Deal”, radiofetzer.blogspot.com. Because Preston is also highly trained in school safety issues and had himself organized drills of many kinds, including active-shooter drills, what he has to say is especially telling. He has a website of his own at www. Agenda21Radio.com, which he created to alert listeners to the perils of Agenda 21. ​

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S – Welcome back everyone to the Speed o f Lig h t o n t h e P u r e Momentum Network. This is Sofia Smallstorm and we’re listening to a very interesting discussion – Paul Preston, school principal, school safety consultant, teacher, coach, and superintendent. He has been in the California system for 41 years.  He is now retired. So Paul, let’s continue. Can we get a little bit into Sandy Hook now and what set off your antenna about it? P – Well, you know I’ve been involved in many many situations at schools that have been, you know, emergency type situations and was involved even to some degree with the Columbine situation in that we had an individual who 102

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was trying to blow up the school, our school, at the time. In a similar fashion to what was a predicted bomb threat that occurred at Columbine three days before the Columbine shooting, and that’s how we kind of got in touch with the Columbine people. They got in touch with us because it turned out to be a similar neo-Nazi group that was related to the Trenchcoat Mafia, of all people. And so learning and watching and seeing all these incidences play out, all these school shootings, I took an enormous interest in because we were doing a study trying to determine because the neo-Nazis we had been working with in our school along the same time of the Columbine incident were telling us that there was going to be some big event take place. And so our staff, myself, we all wanted to sit down and figure where this was all going to and we studied a lot of the Nazi websites and so on, and we figured out that yes, something big was going to happen. Well then Columbine happened. So we watched with a lot of intensity-especially under my own circumstances--and also by watching the videos and replays of the other active shooter situations, I became sort of a specialist in that and applied it to my own active-shooter training that I was doing and conducting with my own people. S – Right. And now can we get into Sandy Hook? P – Well yes. Of all the hundreds of hours that I spent watching these scenarios and investigating and reporting on them on my radio show, the first thing I noticed when I heard about Sandy Hook when I turned on the TV like everybody else …now I have always told everybody when you’re seeing these things play out in real time, the best news reporting is what’s happening in real time – that day of, you know, the moments that are around the incident. But document for yourself what’s going on because you’ll never see it again. And the first thing that caught my eye as I was watching everything play out was the lack of intensity with which people were moving and that really disturbed me. It hit me within the first few minutes, watching the video, the helicopters flying around and so on. Things just didn’t seem to be right, like I would always understand in an incident command system. People weren’t rushing around.  People weren’t panicking.  They ran that one guy off into the woods and then they arrested him. They took him away and there was no connectedness to that. I was also wondering why all the emergency equipment wasn’t around the school. And I didn’t see any students either and that really bothered me. S – So, it was almost like too slow motion for a real event. Not enough 103

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panic. Not enough chaos. You had mentioned chaos earlier being a part of these real situations. And a lot of support people rushing around like press and police but not running fast enough, not running with intensity and alarm and panic and concern, I think. P – None of that was there. S – Yes.  So all right, and then what did you start thinking? P – Well, just within the first 10 or 15 minutes, it just all looked too staged to me, and I know about staging these things since I’ve staged a number of them. And, like I said, then when you stage something there’s a complete lack of intensity as you would have in a real scenario when there’s panic really taking hold of people and they’re really afraid and they’re screaming and yelling and so on. ​But the one thing that really bothered me was where were the kids. You know they had how many hundreds of kids there at the school. I didn’t see them. S – Right. P – And there was lack of accounting for them. And right away – and I’ll juxtaposition this with the situation that happened in Pennsylvania. You saw the kids right away. I know it’s a high school, but you know, you saw the kids right away and you saw their plan of evacuation of the school unfolding. Now this is where it really falls apart with Sandy Hook for me.  saw…I saw no evidence of a real plan of student evacuation taking place. And that stuck in my head like crazy when I was in the moments watching this whole thing play out in real time. S – That’s very interesting. No evidence of a real plan. Because only someone…I mean everybody had their own response to it. Some of us were already clued in from previous kinds of situations. All this has got to be not what they’re telling us it is. But you come from the industry, the business, 104

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and you felt that there is… I would say you knew … It probably was not even a feeling. It was like, you know, set in stone in your head. Where’s the plan?  I don’t see the plan playing itself out.  Right? P – I saw some of your evacuation centers and I saw some of your colored tarps on the ground, the colored taps and so on, but even that was pretty odd because normally if you have the tarps out there…in every active shooter situation you have ever see, there’s somebody on the tarp or there’s been some help that’s been given to somebody when somebody has been wounded, but none of that was even evident. And I don’t see anybody trying to rush to anybody’s help at all in a mass casualty situation. See, when you don’t see that…I mean…I’ll go back to the example that I have before about the 13 who overdosed. We had people everywhere, and we had people everywhere until everybody was safe, which was 35, 40 minutes, almost an hour. And that was never happening there at Sandy Hook. You didn’t see the mass of people doing that. S – Yes, it’s more like the press filled in for that missing element. The press sounded more concerned and panicked on TV as they reported but the actual participants were not so …And we got, you know, long after the fact we got the supposed 911 calls, we got various people giving their versions of it on television as they got interviewed. But we didn’t see it on the ground. And so how long did you watch it for? Over a period of days, weeks? And what were your thoughts? ​ P – You know, I make it a study. I study these things intensely, and what really, what really put me over the top was the next morning with Robbie Parker going out there, and I saw that clip as it happened. And I said there’s something really wrong here. And that’s when I started thinking about the …the actors. You can actually rent these actors out. In fact they put these things up for training all the time. And I just said ‘this is not…first of all, his demeanor was terrible. I would never go out…and I know sometimes this happens but…to send a parent out to talk to the press in that fashion about the daughter that he just lost. None of that seemed to be appropriate.  None of it seemed to fit. And his behavior 105

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with the smiling laughing thing and getting into character that you could see. I said ‘ hmmm, I’m not buying this. I’m just not buying it.’ S – Yes, I know. Very few other people did.  So, did you contact anyone? Did you speak to anyone? I don’t mean officially but in your own network of friends. P – Yes. S – And what were their thoughts. P – Almost everybody was unanimous that it was a false flag. S – And when did you start looking it up on the Internet because I think people started posting immediately. You know, they were making YouTubes. The community began to express online. So when did you start looking into all of that? P – We–a side note to this is that I have a lot of sources in and around and in that area. I have a lot of sources in regards to as to what’s going on with the president and the administration and so on, and every one of my sources said it was a false flag. S – Now these are quasi-official… what kind of sources are these? P – Let me say that they are sources that are very close to this administration who know what’s going on. S – Really. So they are really like almost insiders then? P – Oh yes. S – And they all….they say it was a false flag because they figured it out like you did, or they have actually factual knowledge of such.. P – They had factual knowledge of such. That’s part of the plan. S – I see. And so how much were they willing to tell you, and what else were they willing to tell you? Anything? P – Oh, they told me quite a bit, and some of it I can’t reveal to you, but it fits the narrative of the anti-gun movement and the disarmament of America and that’s what the focus was.

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S – And you realized that that’s part of the broader picture? That’s the Agenda 21 society? P – Absolutely. S – So do you want to tell us a little but about that or do you want to stick with the Sandy Hook material? I’ll let you decide. P – Well, let’s go ahead with the Sandy Hook material and then we can jump into that. S – OK, so we’re past Robbie Parker now, and what about the funerals? You must have known then that …Did you have any concept about victims or no victims, et cetera? P – Well, that whole thing was pretty shaky. What was really starting to filter into the system and was just confirming what I was already being told about these charity sites that had been developed. By the way, they were put up the day before the shooting. And I had gotten some screen shots, and I had confirmed with my sources. Some of them were thinking that it was a very sloppy operation actually. But there were reassurances to me that there really were no victims and that everything’s being staged. And of course the funerals to me…you go and look at the whole funeral process. It looked like they were all staged, from the Robbie Parker one in Utah, or the Sarah Parker one with the Parker family. And then I started getting information from people that actually had attended that funeral who lived in Utah and said that was something very funny about it. S – Now I would like to ask you whether your sense is that these are real families even, or are they patched together? P – Well, you know, that’s a good question because, you know, the thing that rolls around in my head, you know, the actors type of thing, you know. You know because you can put families together and these acting programs 107

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will do that under certain training scenarios.  And so, it’s a good question. It really is a fair question to ask whether or not they were real families. S – And then of course because they continue to speak and organize and be called upon to comment, they have to be formed into these family groupings over time. And remain grouped like that whether they are truly married or not. You know, here’s one thing that I noticed. When you see a couple, if they seem really like an odd couple, then that kind of strikes you as weird.  And I saw that. I saw a very odd coupled-ness with lots of these Sandy Hook families. It seemed to me, why would this person marry this person and live with them?  They’re so totally different. That happens sometimes but in this context it really jumped out at me…myself anyway. I didn’t know if you noticed that… P – It’ difficult to say, you know, when you saw them together whether they are natural families or not. That’s…I’m suspicious of that. And like I say, I’m suspicious because I know that you can put these families together, you know, with some of these acting companies out there. And that just kind of blends in with what I was already being suspicious about. And so, there’s a lot of things that would go into the details of examining this. And I’ve see a lot of the pictures and so on, and some of the pictures don’t match up, especially the one of the Parkers in the White House. And it looks like to me that’s Sarah Parker sitting there that’s, you know, supposed to be a victim. S – There’s no Sarah Parker… P – Which one is it…maybe it’s not the Parker… S – Oh, you mean with Obama… P – Yes, right. S – Emily or Madeline …those are the two older sisters, and a lot of people felt that that was Emily Parker leaning on Obama. P – Yes, that was Emily Parker…

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S – Have you seen the Super Bowl video? P – Yes, I have seen that. S – Well, there is a girl who looks a lot like an older Emily Parker in that video. So if that was Emily at the White House, or actually  I think…I don’t know if it was at the White House…but with Obama, she couldn’t be six in one picture and then just a month or two later, twelve or thirteen. P –  Right. S – That’s where we have to make a decision. But what did you think of all the photographs of the children? Did you notice anything – the portraits that we were shown that these were  the victims? Did you notice anything about those portraits? P – No, other than some of the malformations of different parts of their bodies – seemed to be a pretty obvious thing. The whole thing …when you take a look at the totality of this, in my opinion, it’s very sloppily done. S – Why would it have been sloppily done though? P – Well, you know, when …and again, it’s kind of like sometimes there’s order that comes out of chaos. And when you have these chaotic situations, people want to put things back together as best they possibly can to feel more comfortable or to recover from it. And I didn’t see any of that. I don’t know if that makes any sense to anybody.  People don’t want to have that chaos. They want to heal. They want to come back together. They want to solve a problem so that they can move forward. And that’s part of what happens when you do these drills is that you take a day or so and you talk about what happened so that you can improve upon and make it better. People do that naturally even when there’s chaos and there’s an emergency situation because they want to seek normalcy again. I didn’t see the same kind of emotions, if you will, or the same kind of communications between parents, kids, that you would normally see in these situations. It just didn’t look…it looked phony to me. S – So you mean the community itself, they did not try to repair in the organic way…? 109

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P – I would say that is true, from the parents to the kids, to the entire community. S – What do you think of this privacy issue that has been bandied about by the authorities, that all the privacy needs to be respected, and you can’t reveal this or that…? P – That to me just adds more fuel to the fire because that’s not what you do in the normal situation of an incident command system. You get the facts out because you know oftentimes when you get the facts out, you’re also looking for criminal behavior, and the more information that you can get out that that’s way, the better. And I’m certainly not buying the notion that the parents weren’t allowed to see the kids. S – The bodies, identifying the… P – I just…that to me… that should be a red flag to anybody who has looked in to Sandy Hook. The parents weren’t allowed to do that. What’s up with that? ​S – And what did you think of the coroner’s behavior at his press conference? P – Well there’s many things about him. I just …I …first of all, I didn’t understand why all of a sudden there’s 26 bodies and then there’s no coroner or doctor who’s looked at the bodies and they’re declared dead. And then all of a sudden the coroner comes out and everybody says that there was an automatic gun or a handgun that was used, and the coroner, on his own, comes out and says ‘oh no, that was an AR15 that was used.’ So there’s a lot of confusion, you know, about that coroner, his report, his reporting out.  Nothing seems very clear and concise to me. And you know I would argue that, you know, as I looked at him and watched what was going on, he seemed to be just answering questions on the fly without a lot of knowledge behind the questions. S – And this suggested to you that this was a sloppily created event?

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P – Absolutely. S – And would you say that that was because of the portent of the whole thing that they…there were people involved in this…let’s say Dr. Carver, the coroner, who had some idea, if it was a scripted event, it was going to go big, and really big? So do you think that the sloppiness of it was because in being organized, it’s very difficult to juggle how people are going to perform given that they know how big this thing could get? P – Well, you know, what happens is that you…if you’re going to do these things and carry it through with the lie, everybody’s got to be telling the same lie at the same time all the time. And I think with my judgments about the parents and the kids, and seeing them lie, I was seeing a big lie being perpetrated right in front of me because nothing seemed to be consistent. And like you said, which I thought was interesting, is that oftentimes the media would fill in a lot of the blanks for you. A classic example of the blanks comes up when you talk about where are the kids that are evacuating the school. There were helicopters that were circling overhead. They certainly would have been able to show, you know, hundreds of kids exiting the school. That was never shown. But you did see a picture out in a parking lot, which by the way if you take a long look at this picture of all these kids being led out, about 15 or 20 kids being led out by teachers and adults from this parking lot, if you take a look at the parking lot from the aerial views, you can see that there are different cars in the parking lot in that area. So obviously that was done during some sort of drill. That’s my opinion. And it didn’t match with what was going on at the time. So nothing is matching in real time for me.  That’s just another thing. But where are the kids? Where were the kids? They weren’t present. They just weren’t there. So that’s the kind of stuff that wasn’t worked out and, you know, they were doing things on the fly. That’s why I say…I would say it was very amateur, very amateurish as to what was going on.

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S – Which is surprising because given the powers that would have designed this thing – that it would be so amateur – but… You are familiar with the character, Gene Rosen? P – Gene Rosen – which one was …? S – Gene Rosen was the man who was very close to the school and he took the kids in and offered them juice and cookies, and he gave many different…he recounted  his rescuing or fielding of these kids differently in many interviews. So can you comment on that? P – I can comment on this because this points to this proves my point that these kids …did they get off a bus? Where did they go? OK, I think that one of the stories was that the kids got off the bus and they made their way to his house, and there was all this panic or whatever was going on. OK, there’s something really wrong with that picture to begin with. First of all, when you’re doing these scenarios and this school had to have been trained for this because FEMA requires these trainings, and if you’re getting safety monies from the federal government, which every school does, they have to follow the proper protocols and that’s the proper release of the students to their parents. S – Right. He said, that children showed up on his lawn and they were with a bus driver, in one story. In another story, they were just there by themselves and they were repeatedly babbling that their teacher was dead. So what…would the protocol be that the children…the children, according to the story, left the school on their own. P – Well, that to me, that’s very suspicious in and of itself. S – Right, I mean the cops had not gotten there in the first five minutes. Apparently some of them could still hear shooting going on, and how did the kids get out and just run down the road, you know? P – All that seems to be …and again, I want to go into the thing about the incident command system, evacuation, walk-outs and so on. None of that fits that protocol. None of it. The story of Gene Rosen or any of that stuff — None of that fits. That to me is just more evidence that there were no students other than the actor students that were there.

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S – Then what was the purpose of having the Gene Rosen player? P – Diversion. S – From what? P – A diversion from the other realities going on and to add more hype about the story.  It’s the same thing about the guy that was chased through the woods. You know, they had a couple of guys that were chased through the woods. What were they all about? ​ And there were no answers about any of that, about where they came from and even my people couldn’t come up with an answer about that. Some of my people say it was very sloppily done. S – These are your insider people, right? P – Right. S – Now did you see any of the videos of the people circling through the firehouse? P – Yes. S – And did that strike you …what did you think of that? P – Well, I had already come to my conclusion that this was a drill, and again, being very suspicious of the Obama administration, Diane Feinstein, Second Amendment issues, using Agenda 21 in particular, I had not see that until quite some time afterwards, maybe a couple of weeks after. We were engaged in our own things that we were doing in terms of investigations and stuff like that. We’re pretty intense about what we’re doing here on Agenda 21 Radio, and we have some very highly placed sources of information that comes to us and which we’re very grateful for. I, for one reason or another, hadn’t seen that video maybe two or three weeks until after the incident. 113

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There’s more evidence right there because what in the world were all those people doing there to begin with? You see, if you’re doing an incident command situation, there’s a place for those people and those people can be moved on rather than seeing that circus that was going on, which is what that was. That was all staged. S – Right.  And these were far too many adults, no children whatsoever, no panic. And to me the people that were there-–they weren’t dressed for December. So some people have suggested that that particular drill, the circling in and out of the firehouse, took place a lot earlier, and it matches the time frame and the clothing of the children evacuated from the school. They did not have their coats. And I was going to ask you, is it normal when there’s an emergency for the teacher to evacuate the children without letting them get their coats, or would they take the extra time and say ‘Children, go put your coats on as fast as you can.’ How does that work? P – Well no. If there’s a signal to get them out of the building, and there’s always a signal of some sort to get them out of the building safely, they go directly out. Period. End of subject. And if they can get their coat, that’s great, but the safety thing is to get them away from where there potentially is a threat and that would be the key thing. And again, you pointed to something else and I brought this up earlier about the drill that we used to run and people would always, you know, screw up the drill because they would knock on the door in an active shooter situation and the teacher would open the door. Well, you know, how does that all play out? I was looking at things pretty much in real time within minutes of news being broadcast as it was happening from a helicopter. Now I am a real-time kind of guy. So I’m looking at maybe 15 minutes into the shooter, maybe 20 minutes into the shooter situation. I’m looking at clear video of the campus and so on.  I’m not seeing anything happening. Where are the kids? The kids aren’t there. S – Right. P – And they should be released or what’s going on with them? S – And there were some people said that they were in closets for up to four hours. That doesn’t make any sense either. 114

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P – That does not many any sense to me because what happens, and again it goes back to the police, and back to Columbine, they will go in and check every nook and cranny. And quite frankly, I know how that’s done. We used to do that. We always used to look and check to see where people were. S – Right. And you would not miss large adults hiding in small closets. And the idea of Kaitlyn Roig and some of these teachers bundling up all their kids into the bathroom and having a few sit on the toilet…I even heard the toilet roll holder, my God, that’s pretty tough to do even for a six year old. But what do you think of that?  That doesn’t make sense to me. Sofia Smallstorm, “Unraveling Sandy Hook in 2, 3, 4 and 5 dimensions”

P – Well, you know, we tell people in an active shooter situation to seek…to hide or …if there is a shooter there to take the challenge. We used to do these things where we had these dummy books and we’d bring in an active shooter as the stage person and throw books at them, you know, because that really throws them off. You’re taught those kinds of little techniques to throw the active shooter off. But I can imagine some people getting holed up in a closet or something like that if they haven’t been able to lock the door. And that’s one of the things we tell our people all of the time. Lock the door. And we made sure in all schools, and all schools should have the, the doors should have the inside key on them, you know, so you can use an inside key on them also as we could on the outside. S – So we have a couple of minutes left of this first hour.  Do you have anything to say about Adam Lanza – fiction, non-fiction, real? P – Well, just on the surface of it, and again I would throw out I’m highly specialized trained in drugs and alcohol recognition, obviously looks like he has some meds onboard just by the look. But you know if you couch that along the same lines that that this may be a fictional event, that he’s a fictional character, which fits his description of what I see there.

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And of course if you’re doing a fictionalized event like this, you want to have the most crazed individual that you can have looking at you through the picture there, and that’s exactly what you have. That’s my speculation. I think that’s what they wanted. That’s what they did. And he has a history and what is the history? We’re not real clear on the history. You know, first of all, they found out that he’s got his brother’s driver’s license. Then there’s some confusion. And you know it one of these kind of scenarios that just didn’t quite fit. And as a school person that to me was one of the big pieces of evidence. Why does he have his brother’s license? And then they made contact his brother that I guess was in New Jersey some place, wherever he was, and there was an investigation. That all seemed to be tracking with me as a distraction about what was really happening at the school. See, the more they under this situation… this is just my speculation – the more they could distract from the actual Sandy Hook school site itself and stage things away from there, the more they could sell the story of Sandy Hook on the whole. S – That’s a very very good point, Paul. Excellent. And we should add that the mug shot that they gave us of Adam Lanza was very painterly. It wasn’t even a photo, and it did have that, you know, ghoulish expression on it to make us think this is a real lunatic. But we are now at the end of our first hour and I really really thank you, Paul Preston, for being with us. And we will take up a second hour discussion in the Members Section. So this is Sofia Smallstorm thanking everyone for listening to this first hour and please do come to PureMomemtum.net and join us for the second hour in the Members Section with Paul Preston, 41 years in the public schools and someone who has been through a lot of staging of drills and has a lot of drill understanding and experience. This chapter originally appeared under the title, “Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drlll and no children died”, veteranstoday.com (13 June 2014)

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Fixing a Prop: Furnishing the Lanza Home by Allan Powell (with Kelley Watt) To make the purpose of this chapter clear immediately at the outset, the Sandy Hook Elementary school and the Lanza Home were set up and stage-managed to support a false story that Adam Lanza killed his mother Nancy Lanza in their home and then went to an Elementary School and killed 26 people.  ​ There are hundred of  images on the Internet that show both sites in gradual states of preparation to serve as a stage (in the case of the school) and as a prop (in the case of the Lanza home), which display its preparation over time with different states of tidiness.    Social engineering requires psychological operations presented to the public as factual phenomena. It stands to reason therefore that individuals willing to conduct these psychological operations have to be trained in the presentation of the same. Both the Lanza home and the Sandy Hook school are instances of presentations of this kind and of the training of DHS personnel in producing them.  

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false. The Lanza home was set up to resemble a home of a mentally deranged twenty-year-old who killed his mother and drove a Honda to kill over twodozen at the school.   The images available on the Internet and from the evidence released by the Connecticut State Police show that the home was stage-managed with props to create a location to support a false media story. From the evidence of these images, one or more may have stayed at the home for several days.   The photos in this chapter show various stages of preparation of the house as a prop for the story of Adam Lanza the shooter. There are different takes on the décor of Adam Lanza›s bedroom for instance: messy, “normal” and pristine.

Exhibit 1: Adam’s bedroom “messy” ​ Note the books in the television stand in no order. * And the boxes have yet to be unpacked [where the asterisked comments are from Kelley Watt.]   

Exhibit 2: Adam’s bedroom “neat” ​ 

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There are no evidence markers in either image and it is hard to imagine why any investigation of the dead shooter›s room would forward any evidence for clearing up any issues which could be in contention in a trial especially given that the shooter was dead.   * Note the glider pad under the leg of the headboard in order to move the bed around for picture-perfect staging.   * There is no blanket or electric blanket on bed despite 28 degrees outside.   * There is no bulletin board, sports memorabilia, ipads, ipods, headphones, stereo equipment, trashcan, trophies, pictures, magazines, caged pets (such as a snake or hampster) plants,  shoes or shirts, video games or flat screen TV. These items are typical in the room of a 21-year old.  

Exhibit 3: The “computer room” neat

   * White cord running across the floor; sides of the computer taken apart; two bowls on table with white cloth draped over it, to the left of  brown desk; trash can is located on side of desk; computer chair has no dust on legs. Cardboard boxes are stashed on the bottom shelf of black table. No medicine bottles or papers on desk. No box of “stuff” next to screwdriver on the floor.   

Exhibit 4: The “computer room” messy

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evaluation form for those managing the arrangement, which will appear in many of these exhibits--on top of desk. The sides of the computer tower are now not taken off and strewn on floor.  

Exhibit 5: Another “computer room” scenario  * Computer chair now in front of desk; screwdriver on floor; the cardboard boxes have been moved; small speakers behind cereal bowls. Nothing on bottom of black shelf holding TV. Headphones on desk. Box of stuff with evidence marker is on the floor.  White cloth on floor.   

Exhibit 6: Now with a stash of pills Here’s an image with a good sized stash of pills on the desk. The pills have no evidence marker. The story is that Adam Lanza wouldn’t take his meds, so what is this stash about? How did the photo come about? Why would forensics teams set up evidence like this in cross contamination of different areas of the house? 

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   * Stacked cardboard boxes now missing along with the screwdriver and box of “stuff” that was next to the screwdriver. Trash can now behind file drawer; desk chair is missing; cereal bowls are now on desk; the table they were on now missing.  * Small speakers behind cereal bowls are now facing backwards on desk; hand weight now on file cabinet and flat screen is turned sideways. White cloth that was on the floor is now missing. The sides of the computer tower that had been taken off are now gone, while medicine bottles appear on the desk.  

Exhibit 7: The “boiler room” in one of its guises

  T h e m o s t inexplicable area in the house is what I shall call «the boiler room». There are at least four different images of this area which are completely contradictory to each other.   * Hoover box is front and center, white plastic table is upright. Adam’s bed linens are under laundry basket; the green wire rack is in front of white box with pink pillow on floor behind it. The brown bookcase to the right of green wire rack. Painter’s paper on floor. (Stuff  behind the “black oil tank” changes in other photos of «the boiler room».)   

Exhibit 8: Another “boiler room” arrangement ​ The contents of the boiler room here are arranged differently and are differ in number, position and category to the items in Exhibit 7.   * Now there is a book on top of the brown book case behind the green wire rack; the Hover box is moved and

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on its side; the brass magazine rack is in front of green wire rack; the United Van Lines box is front and center.  

Exhibit 9: The “boiler room” rearranged again

Again the arrangement is different here. There is no explanation for this in the context of forensic investigation. None of the activity of re-arranging the boiler room--whoever undertook it--in any manner advances any precision in establishing a point in evidence or establishing a fact either in the positive or negative. The question then arises of what will explain the existence of different settings of the boiler room?  Training for creating misleading evidence is the only answer I can think of. In faking propaganda events, those who leave their integrity at the door have to be trained to do it and that appears to be the function of these attempts at fakery. Where it falls down, of course, is when other dullard public servants are clumsy enough to allow this kind of image to make its way to the public.    * The magazine rack is now on top of book case. United Van Lines box is gone and another box is in its place. Hoover box is now upright; pink pillow is no longer behind green wire rack and now, by the side of plastic movable cart, a plastic bin appears on the floor behind the black oil tank. An evaluation sheet is on top of the black garbage bag.  

Exhibit 10: Another view of the boiler room  Just in case you notice something that we may have missed.

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four times, three in the eye one in the forehead. Four flattened 22 slugs (plus one fragment) were in the evidence, all flattened as if shot into ballistics gel (see below). This image of the Savage shows what one would presume to be bloody matter on the carpet beside it at the muzzle and perhaps a few specks more.  

Exhibit 12: Another view of “Adam’s rifle”

Another image doesn’t show the same matter on the carpet. Note too that Nancy is supposed to have been shot in the eye three times, yet the immediate surroundings including the carpet, the headboard and the bed itself do not indicate that any brain matter or blood were expelled forward out of the eye socket from the three shots.  The shots did not penetrate the back of the skull. There’s no cranial matter evident in any images around the bed except for what looks like some minimal and feint blood splash on the wall. Nancy didn’t bleed much according to the images for having four shots to the head.  The general rule with headshots is that the heart keeps pumping blood because of which wounds evince a large quantity of blood. Four small spots of less than a quarter of an inch in diameter each are found on the bedside cabinet items. This is inconsistent with three wounds to the eye and a wound to the forehead.

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being used as a prop along with a magazine and (oddly) two expended cartridges. It looks like a factory boxed item. That is how the stagemanagers received the rifle from FEMA  to use in the sham setting. Here it’s in the box. In other photos, it›s on the floor. But the Savage couldn›t have been both boxed and on the floor when they found it. And if it was still in the box, Adam could not have used it to shoot his mother. If the forensics team were transporting it to another location, they would have used a large plastic bag. This is another case of incompetent stagers of a hoax taking unnecessary images or of at least allowing the image to come into the public domain.  

Exhibit 14: Used cartridges to plant as props?   The origin of these used shell casings is not obvious. If would seem odd for them to have been supplied with the rifle. Live cartridges were also found and both were used for placement by the bed. These are clearly props for the staging of a murder which did not take place.  

Exhibit 15: The blood on the tip of the barrel

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it›s not very convincing. Note too that the rifle is now in a third location for image capturing.  

Exhibit 16: Slugs purported shot into Nancy

The four flattened slugs (plus a fragment) that were purportedly shot into Nancy›s cranium all sustain uniform damage and look like they were actually fired into some form of ballistics retardant (or gel) rather than an anything-but-uniform complex of skin, skull and brain in the head of a human being.   

Exhibit 17: The Nancy Lanza bedroom ​​

This DHS/FEMA image shows Nancy’s bedroom with a pomegranate-seed colored stain on the bed. It is not the color of dried human blood or of brain matter. A pillow with a slight red stain lies on the floor against the double-mirror chest of drawers. There is no corpse wearing polka-dot pyjamas. None of these stains appear to be blood or brain matter. They are some kind of red matter applied to simulate blood. Again few and small splashes  of the red liquid appear on the wall where the direction they indicate it as having travelled is forward toward the lit lamp. The stain on the bed indicates the red liquid there as having travelled away from the lamp. The red bed stain is slightest a the furthest point from the lamp.   The refection of the top of the bed in the mirror in the left of the picture does not reflect any red stain anywhere on the bed. The angle of view shows the end of the curtain closest to the bedhead wall. The part of the bed reflected 125

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in the mirror is that closest to the mirror, which is the right side. No red stains are evident.   The reason that the red stain evidence is inconsistent with a shooting death having occurred on the bed is that no shooting death occurred in the room. No evidence from the Connecticut State Police shows any image of any corpse on the bed. The reason for this is that there never was a corpse of a person who had been shot on the bed.  The evidence does show, however, that there were three pillows on the bed: a white one, a light blue one and a green-and-orange striped pillow. They were captured in the first four images taken by the forensic team (or police) as they entered the bedroom.   These same clumsy State government fakers have allowed the images which indicate that no corpse was in the bed to be come public on the Internet. The following five images are from the Connecticut State Police evidence made freely available to the public on a Connecticut State Government site.   * Notice the evaluation form on the foot chest. No blanket or electric blanket on the bed despite 28 degrees that morning.  Notice the moving pad under the leg of the footboard--just as we saw in Adam’s bedroom.

Exhibit 18: Peering into Nancy’s bedroom ​​

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* The Central Vacuum hose and toilet cleaner in the foreground suggest that a Maid Service has already been called, which would not appear to be consistent with proper forensic practice.  

Exhibit 19: Taking a closer look ​ Here is an enlargement of Exhibit 18. One might be fooled into thinking one is viewing a body and that the conveniently placed ironing board and iron are concealing a head of a corpse, but that is not the case. 

No part of this image contains any red stain much less a blood stain visible even in the dark as it is. Nothing on the bed at this point discloses any murder having taken place let alone any victim on the bed.  

Exhibit 20: The top portion of bed from side Here is another enlargement of another image available on the same site referred to earlier. The iron is no longer obscuring the top of the bed. There is a green-and-orange pillow, a white pillow, a piece of scarlet cloth and a bundle of cloths in the middle. No polka-dot body in pyjamas is in sight. 

From the lie of the coverlet, the fake corpse appears to have no feet. This first entry to the bedroom is at least three hours after Adam Lanza supposedly shot his mother. All blood by this time would be dark brown not scarlet. If the scarlet coloured material is intended to simulate blood, it has defied the law of gravity as a liquid and has failed to flow down on to the bedsheet.  

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No arms, hands, head, feet, face nor legs are discernible in this image. The curtains are closed in this photograph, yet open in others. This image is contrived to come across as uninformative yet realistic as the imagination of the scene-setters has allowed. It falls far short of reality. In setting up this room, as in all the other rooms, the participants were graded. The graders were dumb enough to leave their evaluation forms.  

Exhibit 21: Nancy Lanza’s dressing table

This image was captured too casually because it shows the top of the bed reflected in the mirror on the left with no red colouring at all. No corpse, no head, but a cross section of the bed, which Exhibit 17 shows as having red staining. That staining is not evident here. Not even the faked material appear to be in place. The colour and configuration of the bedframe and of the chest appear different to other images of them.   * The evaluation form is now missing from the chest in the mirror reflection.  

Exhibit 22: Nancy’s bed with stains concealed  ​​ Ask yourself why a forensic photographer would take an image of a bed with the purported blood stain covered up? Was he queasy? Was he trying to conceal disturbing proof of a murder?

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 * The lamp is turned off in this picture. The sheets have been removed. No blood visible anywhere.  

Exhibit 23: The Lanza family dining room

  Notice the evaluation form in the dining area.   * Three candle holders on the table; no chair pads on chairs; boxes in dining room. No plants, framed art or area rugs. Cheap dining room curtains and curtain rods for a house appraised for over $500,000 owned by the ex-wife of an executive for finance at GE who was reported to have purchased the home new in the 1990’s.

Exhibit 24: The photographer catches himself ​​ O n e o f t h e photographers and stager managers catches himself in a reflection in the mirror. We have several others, where their reflections were apparently not noticed by those filing the photos. * Mattresses are stacked on top of one another in the dining room. Candle holders are missing from table and moved to sideboard.

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Exhibit 26: Here’s one taken from above This odd shot appears to be a different man than the one reflected in Exhibit 24. None of them seem to be wearing protective gear, which suggests that they are not forensic experts but photographers recording the home as it was being furnished.  

Exhibit 27: The lounge area of the Lanza home   ​* Coffee table in the middle of the room rather than near the sofa or chairs. No coffee table books, candlesticks, candy bowl, magazines, magnifying glass, picture frames on tables. Again really bad, cheap curtains.  

Exhibit 28: An access venue that broken in Each access point was forced and each door was broken. The Lanza home appears to have been stormed simultaneously. Did they think Adam was still alive and waiting for them?  Even the roller door for the garage (below) is forced or at least broken. One can understand police forcing a single door as a matter of urgency, but surely not all points of entry.   130

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* The curtains are way too long and cheap, including even the curtain rods, for such an expensive home. 

Exhibit 29: The refrigerator filled from the left The water bottles in the freezer compartment would have expanded to split the bottles if they had only arrive at least for three hours after Nancy had been shot. If the official report were true, Nancy was shot sometime before 9:30 AM and police entered after 12 Noon.

Exhibit 30: Desk set up for right-handed user The setting here indicates that Nancy was right handed, but the filling of the shelves in both the refridgerators indicates that it was performed by a left handed person, being filled to the left.   * In contrast with Exhibit 27, there is no water bottle to the right of the sand timer on the shelf (4th from the bottom to the left of desk).  The chair is in front of desk.

Exhibit 31: The study with no laptop or printer Here’s the study with no laptop or printer and the evaluation form on the Chesterfied chair. 131

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Note only one image of Ryan Lanza in the bookshelf  and no modern one of Adam Lanza. Ryan is wearing a graduation gown different to the one in his graduation video.   * Laptop is missing from desk; chair is in front of cabinet, not desk; water bottle to the right of sand timer on bookshelf. Banker box on floor.  

Exhibit 32: Workman’s tools left on the floor Workman’s tools are on scene before evidence markers are laid down. This is another image which should not have been allowed to escape by the stagers to public scrutiny.  

Exhibit 33: Water bottles left on the floor Stage managers’ bottles of water are caught in photos. My (Allan’s) guess is that there were three of them. * I (Kelley) think the house was being lived in as a security measure against anyone gaining access in pursuit of DNA or other evidence.

Exhibit 34: Outdated electronic equipment   ​ The whole house has electricals from 2008 or earlier. A Dell Inspiron laptop Image 25 and a Brother MFC printer fax from around that era.   132

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Exhibit 35: The paper shredder appears full   The paper shredder is full. What would Nancy have had that required that much shredding? Those setting up the fake scene for a pretend murder, however, have a lot of paperwork they wouldn›t want seen.

Exhibit 36: Ryan and Adam’s AAA ID cards Ryan has a Connecticut AAA card and lives in Queens but Adam has a New England AAA card and lives in Sandy Hook?  

Exhibit 37: Back to the Computer Room Like all other things in the Lanza home the carpet protectors here are either brand new or unused or show no signs of use. These plastic mats are in an unrealistic condition if Adam Lanza was on the computer all hours. The room is too sparsely filled. There are no books in the bookcase for someone who supposedly shrinks from the world. There are no super hero comics, no computer magazines, no favorite anything anywhere. The games are from 2008 and the machines from the same period. No Spiderman, Star Wars; only a Matrix poster. There is a sack in front of the desk and no boxes.

Exhibit 38: The room has been rearranged

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a huge spread sheet, where  The New York Daily News reported that investigators discovered, “a chilling spreadsheet 7 feet long and 4 feet wide that required a special printer, a document that contained Lanza’s obsessive, extensive research —in ninepoint font—about mass murders of the past, and even attempted murders.”  But none of the photos we have reviewed suggest any kind of research, much less a special printer or a spreadsheet of that size. If it had been in the home, surely it would have been the subject of photographs. But there appear to be no printer, no spreadsheet and no indications of Adam having done any research on mass murders or any other subject.

Exhibit 39: The carpet saver seems unused   Not one scratch or buff or scrape or indent or piece of dust on this carpet saver. It›s not just this. Look for yourself at the photo evidence.  

Exhibit 40: And no dust under Adam›s bed

No dust, spider webs or other miscellaneous debris under the Adam Lanza bed. Nothing to suggest it was here for any period of time.  

Exhibit 41: A constantly changing down-stairs room

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There is no explanation for how the down-staris room came to have so many different states and why they were photographed by a technician and included in a release of evidence to the public--except, of course, government incompetence. *Boxes have been emptied, sofa is sideways in order to make room to move stuff in. Bed is not made; stuff is on top of armoire.

Exhibit 42: A variation on the messy room Here’s the basement less tidy. Notice the everpresent evaluation paper on the table.    * Green chair has been moved; fewer boxes on bed: some may have been taken upstairs and used to stage tje book shelves, etc. In another picture, the bed has been made and all boxes have been removed.  

Exhibit 43: A neater version of the down-stairs room Here’s the basement considerably tidied up with somebody’s clothes and bag of food evident. Whose room was this? It wasn’t Adam’s room or  Nancy’s bedroom. Did a forensic’s guy break in to set up the house after the incident? Before is even more 135

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likely. And he cleaned up for the official visit, but left his clothes behind. Please notice, that the sofa is now flat against the wall.  

Exhibit 44: The ever-changing laundry room   The ferns in the laundry room jump around. The ferns are gone here and the coloured box is on the floor. Laundry basket is in front of the front loader.   *The paper towels are on top of ice chest in this photo, in other photo they are on top of fridge.  

Exhibit 45: A decidedly tidier version of the basement The fern and the coloured box move to the top of the washing machine. The laundry basket has has taken some steps to the left.  

Exhibit 46: Small things are rearranged

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Exhibit 47: Inside the Lanza home garage Notice the evaluation form even in the garage.   

Exhibit 48: The broken garage door

The garage door on the right shows Adam Lanza didn›t drive the Honda out of that car space. There›s a box blocking the broken roller door which wouldn’t have raised or closed. The Honda couldn›t have driven out of the garage.  There’s an evaluation form on the BMW. And of course the man who delivered the oil didn’t see the wrecked door even though he had to pass it to fill the oil tank. He didn›t investigate and did not call the police.  

Exhibit 49: Wood lice and earwigs in the house 

Perhaps a very telling image is this one from the kitchen which has both an earwig and a wood louse at the base of this door. Neither wood lice nor earwigs stay in houses during winter. That is their mating season and they seek out the garden in which to mate and live. The image is fabricated.  

Exhibit 50: The view looking down the driveway 

The faked oil bill has been placed in the letterbox early on a frosty morning as one more fake effect to create the impression that a family was living here, which the evidence presented here refutes. 137

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These exhibits were originally presented by Allan Powell on  “The Real Deal Ep. 80 Explosive New Revelations about Sandy Hook”, which is available on the Internet. 

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Setting the Stage: Refurbishing the School by Allan William Powell Four large trucks supplied by William B. Meyers, a United Vanline franchise holder, delivered the props for the empty school to be window dressed to appear as if it was an active school. The trucks were from United Van’s Connecticut branch. From the state of the leaves on the trees, the last oak leaves are falling so I would say late October or early November.   The trucks unloaded school furniture and props which may have been in storage with William B. Myers since the school was decommissioned and then re-installed at the school to make appear to be a functioning reality. Below are some of those images.  

Exhibit 1: A United Van in the Sandy Hook parking lot A wet but not freezing day, probably late October or early November, th e U n ited t r u ck stands well out of the way waiting to be emptied while another United truck is just visible in the left of the image as it is emptied. 139

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Exhibit 2: United movers standing by cartons used to transmit props   Here we see some of the United removal staff standing by the empty stacked yellow plastic cartons after the school has been filled with props. A security officer stands guard at the front of the school.  

Exhibit 3: The United agent involved here was William B. Meyer The sign “Meyer” on the back of the removal truck shows clearly the United agent was William B Meyer. In the background the leaves are brown but not yet fallen.  

Exhibit 4: Three semi-trailers in the background, one in the foreground Three semitrailers in the background, one in the foreground. T h e r e ’s a w h i t e unmarked FEMA trailer by the portable toilet. Also visible is the portable mortuary referred to by Wayne C a r v e r, M e d i c a l Examiner, in his bizarre public speech about the victims of the hoax. [Editor’s note: See Chapter 1.] 140

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Exhibit 5: The empty truck from Bridgeport shows its work was done    This image shows the work done, the empty United trucks from Bridgeport Connecticut. Wm B Meyer has failed to answer any questions I have put to them about the presence of their trucks at the school.  

Exhibit 6: Unmarked FEMA vehicles making back-door deliveries   Unmarked FEMA vehicles arranged deliveries at the back door. [Editor’s note: We have the FEMA manual for the Sandy Hook event; see Appendix A.]  

Exhibit 7: Multiple indications the school had been abandoned Weed growing and wires hanging loose indicate the fact the school was disused. [Editor’s note: See Chapters 2 and 3 for more proof that it had been abandoned.]  

Exhibit 8: Further signs that the school had been abandoned 

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Green mould on the wall indicates inactivity at the school, long since abandoned.

Exhibit 9: Penske Truck Rental also involved in refurbishing the school  Penske truck rentals were also used to move props for the faked shooting into the empty school.  

Exhibit 10: They took photos with the mover’s tags still attached The image bears the name “William B. Meyers” and the notation for the room in which the contents of the yellow labelled bins are to be placed. The label was removed as shown in the next image when someone realised it would give away the fact that Sandy Hook was staged.   But someone forgot to remove a sticker from a floor mat and it was captured in an image. I›ve sent W.B. Meyers an email requesting that they confirm that the stickers belong to them and if they could tell me when they made the delivery of the props to Sandy Hook. They have not replied.  

Exhibit 11: The MEYER moving sticker identification now removed   H e r e t h e Wi l l i a m B Meyers sticker has been removed from the classroom sign  

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Exhibit 12: Meyer’s was responsible for both moving and storage   Over the orange stickers, the label of William B. Meyers can clearly be seen. This indicates that both storage and moving were part of the Meyers› contract.  

Exhibit 13: Vehicles with fake bullet holes were placed in the parking lot Faked bulletholed car props were placed in the carpark. The official story in the Sedensky report is that Lanza shot holes on the front glass next to the door and nothing else before he entered. The Sedensky Report also says that cars in the car park were only damaged from shots fired from inside the classrooms. The only one with any apparent bullet holes in both glass and window frame is Classroom 10.   Other images released in the evidence show that to be false. Additional cars were staged as crime scenes as the drill stagers hadn›t fully decided the scope of the production. A drill is more likely to test a given situation in which participants have been instructed, so here the participants knew the FEMA/ DHS drill would involve a shooter but they would not be given exact details of what the drill would involve.   The Lauren Rousseau car referred to in the section on the Lanza home appears in the car park and is shown under a small pavilion as is this vehicle. This vehicle appears to have been struck by a bullet which came through the window of classroom 10, turned left, advanced for forty meters, made a right turn and then a left turn into the rear passenger door. The vehicle has been moved to that location; it has cordon tape trapped under the back wheel. 143

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 Exhibit 14: This vehicle was moved to make for better staging   This vehicle has been moved during the forensic session and appears to have driven over the yellow cordon tape, trapping it under the front wheel.  

Exhibit 15: The Lauren Rousseau car also seen at the Lanza home

  This is the Lauren Rousseau car which also was staged as being in the Lanza house driveway. Reflected in the rear passenger door and window is the photographer. The condensation drip of moisture from the exhaust pipe on to the car park surface indicates that the vehicle has only recently been driven to that location, probably within an hour.   The car from Exhibit 13 would have been shielded from any bullet damage to its right side from Classroom 10 by the Rousseau car, yet a bullet hole in the rear right side passenger door was recorded by the forensic’s team.  

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ballistics testing medium and then placed in the trunk of the Rousseau car.   

Exhibit 17: The Rousseau car was photographed in multiple locations   Here it is under the pavilion. The car has been driven over cordon tape indicating that it has been moved again. The car from Exhibit 13 appears to be beside it, which means the Rousseau car would have been blocking any bullet shown in that exhibit as having hit the rear passenger side door.  

Exhibit 18: A close-up of the bullet holes in the right passenger side.

     A bullet coming trough the window of Classroom 10 would have had to have curved over the Rousseau car to hit the Exhibit 13 car. A man is visible in the background at the window through which the bullets were purported to have passed.  

Exhibit 19: Even closer with a forensic identification tag attached.    The stage managers went out of their way to fake their forensic evidence.

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Exhibit 20: These vehicles are cordoned off and not in Sedensky’s report   These two cars and a faked bloodstain are cordoned off as part of the pretended shooting. No reference is made by The Sedensky Report to any discharge of the Bushmaster in the parking lot other than to breach the window in order to enter the school.  

Exhibit 21: Fake blood has been planted between these two cars    Here›s the faked blood between the two cars. The shadow cast from the eastern sunrise shows that this is early morning.  

Exhibit 22: Notice the forensic tag on the bumper by the license plate    This creates the impression of a thorough forensic investigation of the crime scene.  

Exhibit 23: Here is a bullet fragment but no trajectory of how it got there    

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 A bullet fragment glides conveniently to a halt under a car trunk carpet, but no images of the holes the bullet made in the car trunk carpet exist.  

Exhibit 24: Open school door with no shot-out window glass This photo taken early on the morning of 14 December 2012 shows the school door open but no window blown out to gain access. Notice the discarded water bottles at front in the gutter. If you look closely you will see an audio-visual presentation being given on a large screen just beside the American flag in Classroom 8.  

Exhibit 25: A couple of stage managers inside the foyer before the event Another photo shows a pair of stage managers inside the foyer before the event.  

Exhibit 26: Flag full mast, SWAT vehicle present, windows undamaged

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is taken from one of the elevated cameras placed around the car park to record the drill. Leaves are evident on the trees in the background. This is not December. No portable mortuary can be seen, which means this is early morning before the portable mortuary was delivered.  

Exhibit 27: Some Port-a-Potties are already in place early in the morning

   Portable toilets were ordered prior to the day and placed in the car park. They appear in the early morning images. The suppliers of the toilets will not answer emails for details on the supply contract for the potties. Establishing that both the toilets and the mortuary tent were delivered prior to the “massacre” provides one more important proof that this was a planned event. If it›s early morning and Carver is there and the mortuary isn›t, that›s pretty conclusive of planning.  

Exhibit 28: Another car photo early morning before the event takes place The sun can just be seen rising over the school in reflection on this car rear door. The sunlight has hit the trees on the west side of the car park indicating again that the time of this image capture is early morning and before the incident would begin.   148

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Exhibit 29: Earlier in the morning before the windows have been “shot out”

 ​  One image of a car shows a case of water put down for the boys to help themselves and four windows of a classroom open with three candle shapes in each open window. The end windows have been closed. Other images show the windows were intact before holes were drilled through the frames to simulate bullet damage.   The sun has yet to rise on the car park but sunlight can be seen on the tree behind the school. This indicates again that it is early morning. The mortuary tent is not in place as it would have been every morning after the shooting had it been real.  

Exhibit 30: The windows have been “fixed” to simulate effects of shots   The mortuary tent can now be seen in the reflection of the window. This means it has been set up some time after the windows of Classroom 10 featuring three candle images apiece were staged to look as though bullets passed through some of them.   

Exhibit 31: The bullet Adam “shot himself with” looks corroded  

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This image of the 10mm bullet with which Adam Lanza purportedly took his own life shows fragments that appear to be corroded.

Exhibit 32: None of the .223 fragments could be matched to the rifle

  Other images of .223 bullets recovered indicate they have sufficient land and groove imprints to forensically link them to the Bushmaster, were this a legitimate bona fide forensic investigation. The Sedensky Report says none of the 154 fragments that were recovered could be forensically linked to the Bushmaster. That is simply false.   

Exhibit 33: The office area leading to Nurse Sally Cox’s office

She also claimed in another interview that Lanza opened the door and stared her in the face. She says she then jumped under the desk with another staff member and together they stayed there for three hours only calling the police once. The story is highly improbable. Few public-speaking appearances have been made by Sally Cox. As a crisis actor, she appears to be a loose cannon. 

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Exhibit 34: The fraudulent testimony of Nurse Sally Cox exposed Another image is a view of Nurse Sally Cox’s office, which shows she could not have seen the shooter 20 feet away. There is no desk with a view that would have permitted it. There is also no desk facing the door for her to hide under and watch the shooter, as she claims she did. She also asserted in an interview that she saw his boots through this imaginary hole in the desk. But officially Adam Lanza’s footwear was a pair of black shoes.

Exhibit 35: The mortuary tent and oak tree yet to shed all its leaves The large tent mortuary doesn’t appear in other released photos purportedly taken on the day of the shooting. Wayne Carver referred to the structure and said autopsies were performed in the tent. Post-mortem examinations for Pozner and Lanza are supposed to have been performed at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, not in the Sandy Hook mortuary tent. Images of the mortuary tent show an oak tree in the background, which has yet to lose all its leaves: the time of year is late October.  

Exhibit 36: Moving cars around for the best staging: the blue VW

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Exhibit 37: Now the blue VW is facing away from the school   Now the blue VW faces away from the school. Notice too the man in short sleeves, indicating that it may be much earlier than December. The SWAT team is there but the windows of Classroom 10 are intact. How much proof of fakery do we need?  

Exhibit 38: A door with a broken window was at the back of the school The Sedensky Report makes no mention of any doors at the rear of the school being involved in the incident, yet two different images of this broken glass exist. The broken door glass appears to be a CGI aspect of the hoax, which did not quite come off. The wired glass doesn’t in the real world break as show in the images. This is security glass with a crossed wire through it. It does not shatter like ordinary glass.   152

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Exhibit 39: A better photograph of the broken door glass in the back   The angle from which this photo was taken makes the broken glass easier to see than in Exhibit 38.  

Exhibit 40:  They appear to have faked the image of broken door glass The broken glass on the doorstep is a CGI image, which could not possible happen in reality. The pieces show that the wire through the glass has shattered as if it were not wire but glass. This is a physical impossibility.

Exhibit 41: The fantasy scenario of parallel shots from Classroom 10 Photos exist of the windows in Classroom 10 before and after their doctoring. They show a preposterous line of four freehand shots fired into the aluminium frame. To fire and get that many shots in such straight lines--each exactly at a perfect 90 degree right angle to the window frame--is overwhelmingly improbable. No one experienced with firearms would find this remotely plausible. One image indicates that the shot ruptured the aluminium inward, which means that it 153

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was inflicted from outside. There was no blood splatter from any victim on the inside of the window.  

Exhibit 42: The windows before they were “fixed” to reflect the shooting This picture shows the window before it was doctored. Notice that there is no reflection in the window of the mortuary tent. This was indeed an elaborate hoax.  

Exhibit 43: The precision with which those holes were created    This image shows how the bullet holes were actually drilled from the parking-lot side of the window. The swarf from the drill has erupted into the classroom side of the window as one would expect from using a drill on an aluminium window frame.  

Exhibit 44: The perps at work drilling the holes in the window frame   This image actually shows the personnel who are at work setting up the window frame with fake bullet holes. It was extremely

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revealing that such extensive records were kept.  

Exhibit 45: Cameras to record the drill mounted on cars in the back row

  Other images show the extended cameras fixed on cars to record the drill. They›re the little yellow things on extensions from the cars in the back row. The leaves are still on trees so the likelihood that this image was taken in December is very low.  

Exhibit 46: Here’s a Connecticut State Trooper setting up his camera    If you look carefully here, you can see the Connecticut State Trooper setting up the camera just to the left of it.  

Exhibit 47: The same photographer worked the Lanza home furnishing    Note the SWAT wagon in the distance in this image waiting to be put out front of the fire station. There is no other reason a SWAT team would attend a forensics site. And there›s the SWAT team in the

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extreme right of the image their heads visible just above the cars. The man in the evidence overall is obviously aware that he is photographing a complete faked event. He was also in on staging the Lanza home, again being accidentally caught in the image evidence as here.  

Exhibit 48: Police tape up before the window has been blown out One image shows that someone stuck a chair into the crime scene and the window in the background doesn›t appear to have been blown out yet. There is police tape but “the crime” has yet to be committed. If I’m not mistaken there is an audio-visual presentation going on in Classroom 12 on a large screen. Indeed, as the second image shows, I am not mistaken.   

Exhibit 49: Wayne Carver waiting for his Mortuary Tent to show up   Here›s Wayne Carver waiting early in the morning for his mortuary tent to turn up. This is early morning before the drill has commenced.

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down yet on the concrete at the front of the school entrance.  

Exhibit 50:  A view from the woods of a school day that will live in infamy Here’s an unofficial image of the stage setting taken from the wooded area. There are two vehicles in front of the school entrance and that telltale chair, too. Why were there two vehicles in an area that ought to be cordoned off as a crime scene--if it were a crime scene, that is?  It’s possible that two cars were used for the drill and that one of these was the car that found its way to Gene Rosen’s driveway with that broken driver side window for which no alternative explanation has ever been advanced.   These exhibits were originally presented by Allan Powell on “The Real Deal Ep. 80 Explosive New Revelations about Sandy Hook” and its sequel, “The Real Deal Ep. 96 More Sandy Hook”, which are available on the Internet. 

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Proof from the Social Security Death Index by Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D. When a person in the United States dies, his/her death is recorded by the federal government. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is a database of death records created from the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File (DMF). Most persons in the U.S. who have died since 1936, have had a Social Security number, and those whose death was reported to the Social Security Administration are listed in the SSDI. Unlike the Death Master File, the SSDI is available free to the public on several genealogy websites, such as Genealogy Bank. The “state of issue” refers to the state that had issued the individual’s Social Security number. On January 20, 2013, I undertook a search on Genealogy Bank for the SSDI of Adam Lanza — the alleged mass murderer of his mother, Nancy Lanza, and 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. To my astonishment, Genealogy Bank had Lanza’s SSDI as December 13, 2012 — a day BEFORE the alleged mass shooting. (See “SSDI says Adam Lanza died a day before Sandy Hook massacre“) On the next page is a screenshot I took of Adam Lanza’s SSDI record on the website GenealogyBank.com. The date (1/20/2013) and time (2:29PM) when I took the screenshot can be seen in the lower right corner of the image. After the discovery of Lanza’s 12/13/2012 SSDI went viral, on or around February 2, 2013, Genealogy Bank changed Lanza’s SSDI to 12/14/2012, 161

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the day of the alleged massacre. (See “SSDI changed Adam Lanza’s dateof-death from Dec. 13 to Dec. 14, 2012 !!!”) Another genealogy website, Ancestry.com, was slower on the uptake. Three days after Genealogy Bank had changed its SSDI for Lanza to 12/14/2012, Ancestry.com still listed Lanza’s SSDI as 12/13/2012. (See “Ancestry.com still has Adam Lanza’s date-of-death as a day before the Sandy Hook massacre”) Lanza’s curious SSDI aside, I was able to find on Genealogy Bank the SSDI (of 12/14/2012) of all of Lanza’s victims, except one — that of Ana Marquez-Greene, age 6, whose father is jazz musician Jimmy Greene. In my search for Ana, I had used every variation of her name: Ana Marquez, Ana Marquez-Greene, Ana Greene, to no avail. I hypothesized that the lack of a SSDI for Ana Marquez-Greene may be because her parents had not yet obtained a Social Security card/number for her. (See “Dec. 14 was date of death for every Sandy Hook massacre victim, except Adam Lanza“)

But wait! Remember what I’d written at the beginning of this post — that the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is a database of death records created from the federal government Social Security Administration’s Death Master File? What if I were to tell you that the Death Master File does NOT contain the SSDIs for any of Adam Lanza’s victims? In other words, according to the United States Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, nobody died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. 162

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That’s exactly what blogger LivingonPlanetZ of Chemtrails: The Exotic Weapon reported on Feb. 22, 2014. LivingonPlanetZ refers us to what he calls an “originating website” — a document published on archives.org (date unknown), titled “Sandy Hook – NO DEATHS, NO VICTIMS; According to SSDI Official Master File.” (You can also read the document in PDF here or here.) The anonymous person who uploaded the 107-page document to archives. org had accessed the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, updated through January 1, 2014, and searched for Adam Lanza’s victims — in vain. The document says: You are invited to search all of these records for the putative ‘victims’ of the Sandy Hook massacre. The children should all be 6 to 7 years old (“born” 2005-2006), and should have “died” in 2012. The adult “victims” appear in the appendix. (Each entry is followed by a 6-7 digit serial entry number, which demonstrates the continuity of the alphabetical listing – in other words, that they are presented here unaltered.) I did just that and can verify the claim that none of Adam Lanza’s victims is in Social Security’s Death Master File. But before I present my findings, here are the Sandy Hook victims (name, birth date, gender, age at death), according to news accounts: CHILDREN 1. Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female (age 6) 2. Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male (age 7) 3. Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female (age 6) 4. Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female (age 7) 5. Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female (age 6) 6. Dylan Hockley, 03/08/06, male (age 6) 7. Madeleine F. Hsu, 07/10/06, female (age 6) 8. Catherine V. Hubbard, 06/08/06, female (age 6) 9. Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male (age 7) 10. Jesse Lewis, 06/30/06, male (age 6) 11. James Mattioli, 03/22/06, male (age 6) 12. Grace McDonnell, 11/04/05, female (age 7) 13. Emilie Parker, 05/12/06, female (age 6) 14. Jack Pinto, 05/06/06, male (age 6) 15. Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male (age 6) 16. Caroline Previdi, 09/07/06, female (age 6) 163

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17. Jessica Rekos, 05/10/06, female (age 6) 18. Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female (age 6) 19. Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male (age 6) 20. Allison N. Wyatt, 07/03/06, female (age 6) ADULTS 1. Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female (age 29) 2. Dawn Hocksprung, 06/28/65, female (age 47) 3. Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female (age 52) 4. Lauren Russeau, 1982, female (age 29) 5. Mary Sherlach, 02/11/56, female (age 56) 6. Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female (age 27) Here are the search results for each of the above names in the Social Security Death Master File (DMF). In the list below, the names of alleged child victims are bold; those of adults are italics bold: 1. Charlotte Bacon: DMF has 36 individuals named Charlotte Bacon, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Charlotte Bacon. 2. Daniel Barden: DMF has 6 individuals named Daniel or Danny Barden, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Daniel Barden. 3. Olivia Engel: DMF has one Olivia Engel, but she was born on May 18, 1905. 4. Josephine Gay: DMF has 29 Josephine Gay, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Josephine Gay. 5. Anna Marquez: DMF has 21 Anna Marquez, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Anna Marquez. 6. Dylan Hockley: DMF has no one named Dylan Hockley. 7. Madeline Hsu: DMF has no one named Madeline Hsu. The closest, an individual named M. Hsu, was born on Oct. 27, 1940. 8. Catherine Hubbard: DMF has 68 individuals named Catherine Hubbard, none of whom is the Sandy Hook Catherine Hubbard. 9. Chase Kowalski: DMF has no one named Chase Kowalski. The closest, Chas Kowalski, was born on April 10, 1900. 10. Jesse Lewis: DMF has 565  individuals named Jess or Jesse Lewis, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Jesse Lewis. 11. James Mattioli: DMF has no one named James Mattioli. 12. Grace McDonnell: DMF has 38 individuals named Grace or Gracie McDonnell, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Grace McDonnell. 13. Emilie Parker: DMF has 12 individuals named Emilie, Emilia, or Emiline Parker, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Emilie Parker. 14. Jack Pinto: DMF has 12 individuals named Jack or Jacob Pinto, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Jack Pinto. 15. Noah Pozner: DMF has no one named Noah Pozner. 164

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16. Caroline Previdi: DMF has no one named Caroline Previdi. 17. Jessica Rekos: DMF has no one named Jessica Rekos. 18. Avielle Richman: DMF  has 5 individuals with a first name that begins with the alphabet A and a last name of Richman, none of whom is Avielle Richman. 19. Benjamin Wheeler: DMF has 206 individuals named Benjamin (or Benjamine, Benjemin, Benj, Benji) Wheeler, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Benjamin Wheeler. 20. Allison Wyatt: DMF has 4 individuals named Allison Wyatt, none of whom is Sandy Hook’s Allison Wyatt. ADULTS 21. Rachel Davino: DMF has no one named Rachel Davino. 22. Dawn Hochsprung: DMF has no one named Dawn Hochsprung. 23. Ann Marie Murphy: DMF has 11 individuals named Ann (or Anna) Murphy, 4 of whom are named Ann Marie Murphy, but none of them is Sandy Hook’s Ann Marie Murphy. 24. Lauren Russeau: DMF has no one named Lauren Russeau. 25. Mary Sherlach: DMF has two Marian Sherlach, but none named Mary Sherlach. 26. Victoria Soto: DMF has 50 individuals named Victoria Soto. The closest is a Victoria G. Soto who was born about 1985, married in Texas on July 2, 2011, but is not dead. LivingonPlanetZ posted about the document “Sandy Hook – NO DEATHS, NO VICTIMS; According to SSDI Official Master File” on February 22, 2014. It is noteworthy that a month later, Social Security Administration changed its policy on the public’s access to its Death Master File. On the website of the Social Security Administration, it says beginning March 27, 2014, the public can have only “limited access” to its Death Master File. To gain access to the DMF, we the American people must now jump through several hoops: •

One must be “certified” (via having one’s application approved) to be granted “limited access”.

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Only certain people are eligible to be “certified”. One must have a “legitimate” fraud prevention interest, or have a “legitimate” business purpose pursuant to a law, governmental rule, regulation, or fiduciary duty in order to be certified under the program. (The critical word “legitimate” is undefined, which means Social Security Administration’s bureaucrats decide what “legitimate” means.) 165

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Those who are “certified” for access to the Death Master File must pay a hefty annual per-person subscription fee of $995.

Then there’s this cover-their-posterior all-purpose  qualifier  by Social Security Administration: This [Death Master] file includes the following information on each decedent, if the data are available to the SSA: social security number, name, date of birth, date of death. The SSA does not have a death record for all persons; therefore, SSA does not guarantee the veracity of the file. Thus, the absence of a particular person is not proof this person is alive.

But wait! We don’t just have to depend on Social Security’s Death Master File data to know that no one died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. How do we know that? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tells us so! Adan Salazar reports for Infowars, Sept. 24, 2014, that recently released FBI crime statistics show that no murders occurred in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, despite reports that 20 schoolchildren, 6 faculty members, and Nancy Lanza were killed or, in the case of Adam Lanza, committed suicide on December 14, 2012.

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In contrast to the Connecticut report, the 2012 FBI crime report for the state of Colorado shows that 29 murders occurred in the town of Aurora that year, a figure that takes into account the 12 people who died in the Century Theater during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises on July 20, 2012.

To conclude, no one was killed on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. More perverse still, according to the Social Security Administration’s records, none of the alleged Sandy Hook victims ever lived! As the author of “Sandy Hook – NO DEATHS, NO VICTIMS; According to SSDI Official Master File” puts it: ALL of the identities of the “children victims” of the supposed Sandy Hook massacre, are purely fictitious identities, with no record of either birth or death. As to the adult “victims”, the only one with an identity possibly verifiable from the intact SSD Master File, is Victoria G. Soto. The other identities may or may not have been assumed by real people at some time; but the identities themselves are nevertheless fictitious. Secondary copies of the Master File, or perhaps earlier versions, appear to have been altered or “corrected”, to include the fake identities. Such altered copies appear to be in use by popular genealogy search websites, though inconsistently. H/t Nicholas K, Kelleigh N, Victoria M. This appendix originally appeared as “No one died in Sandy Hook: Testimony from Social Security Death Master File” (26 September 2014), fellowshipoftheminds.com 167

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CT Crime Data confirms FBI Report by Dr. Eowyn, Ph.D. & Jim Fetzer, Ph.D. “According to the Connecticut State Crime Report for 2012, there were 27 deaths in Connecticut that did not occur in any community or jurisdiction in Connecticut. But if no one died in Newtown, no one died at Sandy Hook”– Jim Fetzer Brasscheck TV claims that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre really are in the FBI’s Consolidated Crime Report, if you know how to read it. He (the author) claims that those who believe this is “the smoking gun” of Sandy Hook have committed a mistake, because the numbers are there under a special “State Police” designation. He even suggests that Wolfgang Halbig and Alex Jones have been taken in, which is especially surprising since the one he refers to as “W” is a former state trooper himself. Someone has blundered, but that would not be Wolfgang. Sandy Hook is a subdivision of Newtown. Murders in Newtown should be reported under “Newtown”, not under a “State Police” designation. Search for Brasscheck TV: “Sandy Hook FBI Hoax: Viral Nonsense”

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Murders are offenses under the law and should be reported for the community or jurisdiction that has the legal authority to investigate and prosecute them, even if the investigation were conducted by the CT State Police. Otherwise, how would any community know what crimes were committed there? The Connecticut State Police are an organization, not a community or a jurisdiction. Like everything else about this event, there is nothing normal or consistent or coherent about it. And it therefore comes as no surprise that the FBI report has been confirmed by the state’s crime statistics for 2012:

Go to “Crime in Connecticut COMPLETE for 2012″ and on page 26, you will find the data that I am publishing here. At the intersection of “Murder” with “